Liverpool Overhead Railway Company Act, 1888
WHEREAS by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board (Overhead Railways) Act 1882 the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board (herein-after called "the board") were empowered to construct and maintain as double lines certain overhead or high-level railways therein described within a time limited by that Act:

And whereas the said railways were not commenced within the time so limited and by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board (Overhead Railways) Act 1887 the time for constructing the said railways was extende...