Bristol Dock Act, 1886
CHAPTER xcvi. An Act to enable the Mayor Aldermen and Burgesses of the City of Bristol to construct additional Dock works and for other purposes. [25th June 1886.] A.D. 1886. WHEREAS the Mayor Aldermen and Burgesses of the city of Bristol (in this Act called "the Corporation") are conservators of the port and harbour of Bristol extending from Hanham Mills on the River Avon to the mouth of that river at Kingroad and thence down the River Severn and the Bristol Channel from Kingroad westward to...