The Seamen’s Clothing Act 1869
WHEREAS the clothing and property of soldiers are protected by the restraint of the sale thereof, and it is expedient to make the like provisions with respect to seamen's clothing and property: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: