The Royal Naval Reserve (Volunteer) Act 1859
WHEREAS it is expedient that there should be a Reserve Volunteer Force of Seamen for Service in Her Majesty's Fleet in Time of Emergency, and that the Seamen composing such Force should be duly entered and trained: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: