The Dover Corporation (Sea Defences) Act, 1877
WHEREAS the borough of Dover, in the county of Kent (in this Act called the borough), is a municipal borough under the government of the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses thereof (in this Act called the Corporation), subject and according to the Acts relating to municipal corporations and urban sanitary authorities: And whereas in the parish of East Cliffe, within the borough, and in the parish of Guston, partly within and partly adjoining the borough, there are lands and houses situate at the b...