An Act to enable the Mayor Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Preston to borrow additional Moneys for the purposes of the Ribble Navigation and Preston Dock Undertaking and for other purposes.
WHEREAS by the local and personal Act 1 Vict. cap. viii. the Ribble Navigation Company were incorporated for the purpose of improving the River Ribble and the navigation thereof: And whereas by the Ribble Navigation Act 1853 (in this Act called "the Act of 1853") the before-recited Act was repealed and the said company were re-incorporated and (among other things) authorised to make certain guide or training walls and to dredge deepen cut straighten and improve the said River Ribble between t...