Workington Harbour [Cumbria] - Collection of 19th and early 20th century Acts of Parliament

Nine acts in total, tied together with lawyer's ribbon.

first couple of leaves badly creased and spotted, otherwise in good condition apart from dustiness to the page edges.

comprises:

An Act for regulating and preserving the Harbour of Workington in the County of Cumberland........ 19th May 1840. [55 pages]

An Act to enable the Rt.Hon. William Earl of Lonsdale to make and maintain a dock or tidal basin at Workington...and a railway therefrom to join the Whitehaven Junction Railway....28th June 1861 [22 pages]

An Act to enable the Rt.Hon. William Earl of Lonsdale to make and maintain a wet dock at Workington.....in lieu of the dock or tidal basin..... 11th May 1861 [10 pages]

An Act to amend......[the act of 19th May 1840], 23rd June 1864 [6 pages]

An Act to transfer the harbour of Workington from the trustees thereof to the Rt. Hon. William Earl of Lonsdale; to authorise the improvement and extension of the harbour......13th May 1869 [24 pages]

An Act to empower the trustees of the will of the late William Earl of Lonsdale to construct a new dock and other works in connexion with the existing Workington Harbour........10th August 1882 [41 pages]

An Act to incorporate a company and authorise them to acquire the Workington Harbour and Lonsdale Dock undertaking .....and to construct a dock railways and works at Workington.....6th August 1900 [71 pages]

Workington Dock and Harbour (Extension of Time) Act 1889 [4 pages]

The Workington Harbour and Dock Act 1905 [41 pages].