Metropolitan Market Act, 1896
WHEREAS under the Metropolitan Market Act 1851 (in this Act called the Act of 1851) the mayor aldermen and commons of the city of London at the expense of the mayor and commonalty and citizens of the said city purchased a site for and erected and established a cattle market for the metropolis in lieu of the market formerly held at Smithfield together with slaughterhouses and lairs for cattle and other buildings and conveniences and expended four hundred and forty thousand pounds on the said p...