Cotton Statistics Act 1868
WHEREAS it would be of great public Advantage if Statistical Information respecting the Quantity of Cotton imported into the United Kingdom, and the Quantity removed (either by Sea or Land) from and to, and held in Stock at, the several Ports, were periodically obtained and published by Authority: 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 A...