The Margate Extension and Improvement Act, 1877
WHEREAS by royal charter bearing date the twenty-ninth day of July one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven (in this Act referred to as the "royal charter") the inhabitants of the town of Margate in the county of Kent (within the limits of such town as specified in the said charter) were incorporated by the name of the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Margate, and the powers and provisions of the Municipal Corporations Acts were extended to the town and borough thereby const...