The Whitehaven Dock and Railways Act, 1871
WHEREAS by the Whitehaven Town and Harbour Act, 1859, the provisions of several previous Acts of Parliament for the government of the town and harbour of Whitehaven were modified and in part repealed, and provision was made for the election of Trustees of the said harbour, and for altering the rates payable for the use thereof, and for other purposes:

And whereas by one of such previous Acts above mentioned, being an Act made and passed in the thirty-second year of the reign of His late Maje...