Coatbridge Burgh Act 1885
WHEREAS the town or district of Coatbridge, in the county of Lanark, is a populous place, containing a population of twenty-five thousand persons or thereabouts, and is in need of additional legislative provisions for the regulation of the police, and in the interests of public health :
And whereas these purposes can be best attained by the erection of the said town into a burgh, and the establishment of municipal government therein by magistrates and town councillors :
And whereas the provis...