Manchester Ship Canal (Alteration of Works) Act 1888
WHEREAS by the Manchester Ship Canal Act 1885 (in this Act called "the Act of 1885") the Manchester Ship Canal Company (in this Act called "the Company") were incorporated and authorised within two years after the passing of that Act to purchase the undertakings known as "the Mersey and Irwell Navigation" "the Duke of Bridgewater's Canals" and "the Runcorn and Weston Canal" for the sum of one million seven hundred and ten thousand pounds and to construct three new navigable cuts or channels i...