An Act for providing the final sum necessary to be raised by loan towards carrying on the works now in course of construction for the protection of the Royal Arsenals and Dockyards and the Harbours of Dover and Portland, and for authorizing the abandonment of that portion of the works already sanctioned by Parliament which has not been yet commenced.
Most Gracious Sovereign, WHEREAS by divers Acts of Parliament and ultimately by an Act of the session of the thirtieth and thirty-first years of Your Majesty's reign, chapter one hundred and forty-five, a sum of five million nine hundred and fifty thousand pounds has been appropriated to the construction of the fortifications and works in the schedule to the said Act mentioned, the total estimate of the expense of which is stated in the said schedule to amount to seven million four hundred an...