Copland's Patent Act, 1881
WHEREAS by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain bearing date the twenty-seventh day of December in the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria Her Majesty did give and grant unto Henry Syed Smart Copland of No. 1A Duke Street Adelphi in the county of Middlesex civil engineer his executors administrators and assigns her special license full power sole privilege and authority that he the said Henry Syed Smart Copland his executors administrators and ...