The Burgh Wards (Scotland) Act 1876
BEREAS by tho "General Police and Improvement (Scotland) Act, 1862, Amendment Act," provision is made for the division into wards of burgh in the sense of that Act, not being royal or parliamentary burgh, having, by the census last taken, a population of above ten thousand persons: And whereas by the Municipal Elections Amendment (Scotland) Act, 1868, provision is made for the division into wards of any royal or parliamentary burgh having, by the census last taken, a population of above ten t...