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

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

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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].