Mersey Docks and Harbour Act 1857
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifty-first Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, Chapter One hundred and forty-three, the Mayor, Aldermen, Bailiffs, and Common Council of the Borough of Liverpool were formed into a Body Corporate, and the Docks at Liverpool were vested in them, under the Style of “the Trustees of the Liverpool Docks,” and the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the said Borough are now the Trustees of the said Docks, but the Management of such Docks is, ...