An Act for empowering the Corporation of Sunderland to improve the Approaches to the Bodlewell Lane Ferry over the River Wear; and for amending the Wearmouth Bridge Act, 1857; and for other Purposes.
WHEREAS the Borough of Sunderland in the County of Durham (in this Act called the Borough) is a Municipal Borough under the Government of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough (in this Act called the Corporation): And whereas an Act was passed in the Thirty-second Year of the Reign of King George the Third, "for building a Bridge across the River Wear from the Bank or Shore thereof in the Parish of Bishop Wearmouth in the County of Durham to the opposite Shore in the Parish of Mon...