The Municipal Rate (Edinburgh) Act, 1868
WHEREAS it is expedient that so much of the Rate imposed by the Act of the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty, Chapter Fifty, as amounts to One Penny per Pound, and which is made payable in lieu of the Revenue from Seat Rents formerly derived and held by the Creditors of the City in Security, should be abolished, and other Provisions made in lieu thereof: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritua...