The Universities (Scotland) Act 1859
WHEREAS Doubts have arisen as to Admission to the Office of Principal in the Universities of Scotland under the Provisions of an Act of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Years of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled An Act to regulate the Admission of Professors to the Lay Chairs in the Universities of Scotland, and of an Act of the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Years of Her said Majesty, intituled An Act to make Provision for the better Government and Discipline of the Universities of Scotland...