The Paisley Improvement Act, 1877
WHEREAS many of the streets and thoroughfares in the burgh of Paisley in the county of Renfrew are narrow and inconvenient for traffic, and it would be of public and local advantage if the same were widened, altered, and improved, and if a new street were formed for connecting certain existing streets: And whereas there are within the burgh three bridges over the River White Cart, known respectively as the Abbey Bridge or Seedhills Bridge, the Old Bridge, and the Sneddon Bridge, and the said ...