An Act for regulating the Proving and Sale of Chain Cables and Anchors. (The Chain Cable and Anchor Act 1864)
WHEREAS it is essential, for the better Security of Lives and Property afloat in Sea-going Ships, to make Provision for the proper testing of Chain Cables and Anchors: Be it therefore 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, as follows: