Birkenhead Corporation (Ferries) Act 1924
WHEREAS the mayor aldermen and burgesses of the county borough of Birkenhead (in this Act referred to as "the Corporation") were by the Birkenhead Corporation (Ferries) Act 1897 authorised to acquire and maintain the ferries across the River Mersey between the Cheshire side of the said river and Liverpool known respectively as Rock Ferry and New Ferry:

And whereas by section 15 of that Act it is provided as follows—

"During a period of thirty years from the taking over of the possession by ...