Manchester Ship Canal Act, 1896
WHEREAS by the Manchester Ship Canal Act 1885 (in this Act called "the Act of 1885") the Manchester Ship Canal Company (in this Act called "the Company") were incorporated and authorised to purchase the undertakings known as "the Mersey and Irwell Navigation" "the Duke of Bridgewater's Canals" and "the Runcorn and Weston Canal" (which undertakings are in this Act included in the expression "the Bridgewater Canals") and to construct a canal navigable for ocean steamers and ships of large burth...