Manchester Ship Canal (Additional Lands) Act 1888
WHEREAS by the Manchester Ship Canal Act 1885 (in this Act referred to as "the Act of 1885") the Manchester Ship Canal Company (in this Act referred to as "the Company") were incorporated with powers to purchase the undertakings known as "the Mersey and Irwell Navigation" "the Duke of Bridgewater's Canals" and "the Runcorn and Weston Canal" and to construct a canal navigable for ocean steamers and ships of large burthen from the River Mersey at Eastham to Manchester with docks at Manchester S...