Finsbury Park Act 1857
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
ANNO VICESIMO & VICESIMO PRIMO
VICTORLE REGIN^E.
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Cap,
cl.
An Act to enable the Metropolitan Board of Works
to form a Park for the Northern Suburbs of the
Metropolis, to be called Finsbury Park.
[17th August 1857.]
HEREAS the Formation of a Park for the Northern
Suburbs of the Metropolis, to be devoted to the Use and
Recreation of the Public, would be of great public Advan-
tage,
and conducive to the Health and Enjoyment of the Inhabitants
thereof:
And whereas by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament
holden in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years of the Reign of Her
present Majesty, intituled An Act for the
better
Local Management
18 &
19 Vict.
of the Metropolis, in this Act called the Metropolis Local Manage-
c-12°-
ment Act, 1855, the Metropolitan Board of Works were empowered
to make, widen, or improve any Streets, Roads, or Ways for facili-
tating the Passage and Traffic between various Parts of the Metropolis,
or to contribute and join with any Persons in any such Improvements
as aforesaid, and to take by Agreement or Gift any Land, Right in
Land, or Property for the Purposes aforesaid (or otherwise), for the
Improvement of the Metropolis, on such Terms and Conditions as
they might think fit; and such Board, where it appeared to them
that further Powers were required for the Purposes of any Work for
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