Belfast Corporation Act 1889
WHEREAS the mayor aldermen and citizens of the city of Belfast are the municipal corporation having the management of the municipal affairs of that city: And whereas the rateable value of property within the city assessed to the general purposes rate amounted on the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine to 673,119l. and the total of the debts of the Corporation charged upon rates leviable within the city and then outstanding was 766,775l. 14s. 5d. But the said debts ...