Lunacy Districts (Scotland) Act 1887
WHEREAS by the operation of the Prisons (Scotland) Act, 1877, 40 & 41 Vict., prison boards in counties have ceased to exist, and there is no existing authority having the power to make application for altering or varying lunacy districts in Scotland under the forty-ninth section of the Lunatics (Scotland) Act, 1857: 20 & 21 Vict.; Be it therefore 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 ...