List of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, 1840–1859

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19 & 20 Vict. c. i

29 April 1856

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19 & 20 Vict. c. ii

An Act for supplying with Gas the Townships of Knottingley and Ferrybridge in the West Hiding of the County of York.
(Repealed by West Yorkshire Act 1980)
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19 & 20 Vict. c. iii

An Act to extend the Period limited for the Exercise of the Powers of the Colonial Bank; and for other Purposes.
(Repealed by Colonial Bank Act 1925)
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19 & 20 Vict. c. iv

An Act for lighting with Gas the Borough of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, and its Neighbourhood, in the County of Dorset; and for other Purposes.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. v

An Act for vesting in the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Liverpool the Undertaking of the Chorley Waterworks Company, and for other Purposes.
(Repealed by County of Lancashire Act 1984)
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19 & 20 Vict. c. vi

An Act for incorporating the Lancaster Gaslight Company, and extending their Powers, and for authorizing additional Works, and the raising of further Monies; and for other Purposes.
(Repealed by County of Lancashire Act 1984)
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19 & 20 Vict. c. vii

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19 & 20 Vict. c. viii

An Act to enable the Southport Waterworks Company to raise a further Sum of Money, and for other Purposes.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. ix

An Act for the better supplying with Gas the Parish of Gainsborough in Lincolnshire.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. x

An Act for enabling the Company of Proprietors of Lambeth Waterworks to raise further Money, and for other Purposes.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xi

An Act for effecting certain Alterations in the Works of the Tidal Harbour of Victoria Dock at Dundee, and for other Purposes in relation to the Harbour of Dundee.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xii

An Act to enable the Lincoln Waterworks Company to raise a further Sum of Money.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xiii

An Act for granting further Powers to the Heywood Gaslight and Coke Company.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xiv

An Act for the incorporating of the Milford Railway Company and for the making of the Milford Railway in the County of Pembroke.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xv

An Act to enable the Eastern Counties and London and Blackball Railway Companies to raise a further Sum of Money for the Purposes of the London, Tilbury, and Southend Extension Railway; to amend the Acts relating to such Undertaking; and for other Purposes.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xvi

An Act for making a Railway from the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway, near Frome, to Shepton Mallett in the County of Somerset.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xvii

5 June 1856

An Act to confirm an Award for the Settlement of Matters in difference between the University and Borough of Cambridge, and for other Purposes connected therewith.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xviii

An Act to enable the Ulster Railway Company to subscribe towards the Undertaking of the Portadown and Dungannon Railway Company, and to authorize certain Arrangements between the said Companies, and for other Purposes.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xix

An Act for supplying with Water the Town of Filey and the Environs and Neighbourhood thereof, and other Places in the East and North Ridings of the County of York, and for authorizing the Purchase of the Filey Gasworks, and for supplying the said Town with Gas; and for other Purposes.
(Repealed by Filey Waterworks Act 1898 (c.ccxxx))
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19 & 20 Vict. c. xx

An Act to empower the Wakefield Gaslight Company to raise a further Sum of Money.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xxi

An Act for incorporating the Worksop Gas Company.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xxii

An Act to amend and extend the Provisions of “The Llanidloes and Newtown Railway Act, 1863;” and to enable the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway Company to make certain Deviations in their authorized Line and Levels, and for other Purposes.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xxiii

An Act to confer further Powers on the Boston Gaslight and Coke Company.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xxiv

An Act to enable the East of Fife Railway Company to make a Deviation in the Line of their Railway, and for other Purposes.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xxv

An Act for continuing the Term and amending and extending the Provisions of the Act relating to the Leicester and Welford Turnpike Road, in the Counties of Leicester and Northampton.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xxvi

An Act for more effectually paving, cleansing, lighting, and otherwise improving the Town of Gravesend in the County of Kent.
(Repealed by County of Kent Act 1981 (c.xviii))
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19 & 20 Vict. c. xxvii

An Act to enable the Scarborough Waterworks Company to raise a further Sum of Money, and to extend the Limits for the Supply of Water, and to amend the Provisions of the Act relating to such Company.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xxviii

An Act to repeal the Acts relating to the Sleaford and Tattershall Turnpike Road, and to make other Provisions in lieu thereof.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xxix

An Act to confer further Powers on the Bath Gaslight and Coke Company.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xxx

An Act to confer further Powers on the Cheltenham Gaslight and Coke Company.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xxxi

An Act for continuing the Term and amending the Provisions of the Act for making and maintaining a Turnpike Road from the Town of Crowland in the County of Lincoln to the Town of Eye in the County of Northampton.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xxxii

An Act to extend the Municipal Boundaries of the City of Edinburgh, to transfer the Powers of the Commissioners of Police to the Magistrates and Council, and for other Purposes relating to the Municipality of the said City.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xxxiii

An Act to authorize the Cork and Youghal Railway Company to extend their Railway into Cork, and for other Purposes.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xxxiv

An Act for altering the Name of the Banbridge, Newry, Dublin, and Belfast Junction Railway Company to the Name “The Banbridge Junction Railway Company,” for increasing their Capital and extending their Powers, and for other Purposes.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xxxv

An Act for enlarging and improving the Justiciary Court House, and Court Houses and Public Buildings of the City of Glasgow and County of Lanark, for erecting additional Buildings, for amending the Act relating thereto, and for other Purposes.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xxxvi

An Act for making better Provision for supplying the Districts of Dewsbury, Batley, and Heckmondwike with Water, and for confirming an Agreement between the Local Boards of Health of those Districts; and for other Purposes.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xxxvii

An Act for the Continuance and Regulation of the Kettering and Newport Pagnell Turnpike Road Trust.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xxxviii

An Act to amend the Provisions and extend the Limits of the Act relating to the City of Coventry Gaslight Company.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xxxix

An Act to authorize the making of a Turnpike Road from the Township of Thomaby to Middlesbrough in the North Riding of the County of York, with a Bridge over a Creek or Arm of the River Tees, and for other Purposes.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xl

An Act to authorize the making of a Railway from the Great North of Scotland Railway to Afford in the County of Aberdeen, to be called “The Alford Valley Railway.”

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xli

An Act to amend “The Saint Ives and West Cornwall Junction Railway Act, 1853.”

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xlii

An Act to make further Provision for supplying with Water the Borough of Shrewsbury in the County of Salop.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xliii

An Act to amend an Act passed in the 7th and 8th Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to alter, amend, and enlarge the Powers and Provisions of an Act relating to the Road from Barnsdale through Pontefract to Thwaite Gate near Leeds in the West Riding of the County of York, and to continue the Term thereby granted.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xliv

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xlv

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xlvi

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xlvii

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xlviii

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xlix

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. l

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. li

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lii

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. liii

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. liv

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lv

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lvi

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lvii

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lviii

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lix

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lx

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lxi

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lxii

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lxiii

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lxiv

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lxv

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lxvi

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lxvii

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lxviii

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lxix

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lxx

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lxxi

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lxxii

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lxxiii

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lxxiv

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lxxv

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lxxvi

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lxxvii

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lxxviii

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lxxix

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lxxx

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lxxxi

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lxxxii

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lxxxiii

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lxxxiv

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lxxxv

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lxxxvi

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lxxxvii

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lxxxviii

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. lxxxix

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xc

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xci

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xcii

 

19 & 20 Vict. c. xciii

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xciv

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xcv

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xcvi

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xcvii

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xcviii

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. xcix

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. c

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. ci

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cii

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. ciii

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19 & 20 Vict. c. civ

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cv

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cvi

 

19 & 20 Vict. c. cvii

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cviii

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cix

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cx

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cxi

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cxii

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cxiii

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cxiv

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cxv

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cxvi

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cxvii

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cxviii

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cxix

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cxx

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cxxi

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cxxii

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cxxiii

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cxxiv

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cxxv

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cxxvi

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cxxvii

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cxxviii

21 July 1856

An Act to amend An Act for draining, embarking, and improving the Fen Lands and Low Grounds within the Parishes, Hamlets, Townships, or Places of Bardney, Southrow otherwise Southry, Tupholme, Bucknall, Horsington, Stixwould, Edlington, and Thimbleby, in the County of Lincoln,[b] and to confer further Powers on the Commissioners under such Act, and for other purposes.
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19 & 20 Vict. c. cxxix

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cxxx

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cxxxi

29 July 1856

An Act to render more effectual the Powers of raising Money given by “The Severn Navigation Act, 1853,”[c] and for other Purposes.
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19 & 20 Vict. c. cxxxii

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cxxxiii

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cxxxiv

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cxxxv

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cxxxvi

 

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cxxxvii

29 July 1856

An Act to extend the Time limited for completing the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, and for adapting the same to the Broad Gauge, and for other Purposes.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cxxxviii

29 July 1856

An Act to provide for the Arrangement of the financial Affairs of the City of Perth; for the Maintenance of the Port and Harbour; and for other Purposes therewith connected.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. cxxxix

29 July 1856