An Act to make further Provision for the Establishment of Savings Banks for Seamen.
WHEREAS by the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, certain Powers were given to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt for the Purpose of establishing Savings Banks for Seamen: And whereas it has since been found to be expedient that Savings Banks should be placed in the Hands of the Board of Trade: Be it 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 Parliament assembled, and by th...