Ribble Navigation Act, 1896
WHEREAS by the Local and Personal Act 1 Vict. cap. viii. the Ribble Navigation Company were incorporated for the purpose of improving the River Ribble and the navigation thereof: And whereas by the Ribble Navigation Act 1853 (in this Act called "the Act of 1853") the before-recited Act was repealed and the said company were re-incorporated and (among other things) authorised to make certain guide or training walls and to dredge deepen cut straighten and improve the said River Ribble between t...