Essex County Loans Act 1882
WHEREAS it is expedient that the Justices of the Peace for the county of Essex (herein-after referred to as "the Justices") be empowered to consolidate the existing debt of the county and to exercise their statutory borrowing powers for the time being by means of the creation and issue of county stock:
And whereas the objects aforesaid cannot be attained without the authority of Parliament:
May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excel...