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County councils, councils of county boroughs, councils of boroughs and other urban districts and of rural districts, boards of guardians, the receiver of the metropolitan police district, school boards, highway boards, surveyors of highways.

 An Act to redescribe the Parliamentary Divisions of the City of Glasgow. [20th July 1896.]

E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as the Glasgow Parliamentary Divisions Act, 1896.

2. The Sixth Schedule to the, in so far as it describes the areas of the several Parliamentary Divisions of the city of Glasgow, shall be read and have effect as if the Parliamentary Divisions of the said city had been therein described as set forth in the schedule to this Act.

The area within a line beginning at a point in the centre of Albert Bridge, where the same intersects the centre line of the River Clyde, and thence proceeding eastwards along the centre of that river till it meets the parliamentary boundary of the city at Harvie's Dyke; thence northwards along the said parliamentary boundary to the centre of London Road; thence westwards along the centres of London Road and Ginning Street to a point opposite the centre of Clyde Street; thence northwards along the centres of Clyde Street and Abercromby Street to the centre of Gallowgate; thence westwards along the centre of Gallowgate to a point opposite the centre of Saltmarket; thence southwards along the centre of Saltmarket to the centre of the River Clyde at the point first described.

The area within a line beginning at the Cross of Glasgow, and thence proceeding eastwards along the centre of Gallowgate to a point opposite the centre of Abercromby Street; thence southwards along the centres of Abercromby Street and Clyde Street to the centre of Canning Street; thence eastwards along the centres of Canning Street and London Road to the eastern parliamentary boundary of the city; thence northwards, following the said boundary line, to Carntyne Road; thence westwards