National Portrait Gallery Act, 1889
WHEREAS by the National Gallery Enlargement Act, 1866, and the National Gallery Enlargement Act, 1867, it was provided that lands acquired for or appropriated to the purposes of those Acts should be conveyed to Her Majesty, Her heirs and successors, for those purposes or for such other purposes of public utility as might be sanctioned by Parliament: And whereas it is expedient to appropriate for the purposes of a national portrait gallery a piece of land so acquired or appropriated as aforesa...