Plymouth Corporation Act 1887
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the twenty-seventh year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth intituled "An Act for preservation of the haven of Plymouth" the mayor aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Plymouth (by their then corporate name of the mayor and commonalty of the borough of Plymouth and who in this Act are referred to as the Corporation) were authorised to "digge and myne a diche or trenche conteynenge in bredthe betwene sixe or seaven foote over in all places throughe and over all the ...