The Thames Navigation Act, 1870
WHEREAS divers Acts have been passed relating to the Navigation and Conservancy of the Thames, including those mentioned in the first schedule to this Act (which are in this Act referred to collectively as the Thames Acts, and severally by the respective short descriptions in that schedule given), and the execution of those Acts is entrusted to the body called the Conservators of the River Thames (in this Act referred to as the Conservators):
And whereas it is expedient that the Thames Conser...