The Burgesses Qualification (Scotland) Act 1876
WHEREAS an Act was passed in the fifth and sixth year of His Majesty William the Fourth, chapter seventy-six, intituled "An Act to provide for the regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales:" And whereas another Act was passed in the thirty-second and thirty-third year of Her Majesty, chapter fifty-five, amending the same: And whereas it is expedient to assimilate the law of Scotland in some respects to the law of England as regards the creation of burgesses: Be it therefore en...