Public Libraries Act 1850
WHEREAS it is expedient to promote the Establishment and Extension of Public Libraries, and to give greater Facilities than now exist for establishing and extending Public Museums of Art and Science, in Municipal Boroughs, for the Instruction and Recreation of the People: 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 the Authority of the same, That an Act pa...