The Dockyard Extensions Act 1865
WHEREAS it is expedient that Her Majesty's Dockyards at Portsmouth and Chatham be greatly extended, and it would conduce to Economy in the Execution of the Works if the Commissioners of the Admiralty were empowered to take Contracts for Portions thereof extending over a Series of Years: 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...