Burgh Customs (Scotland) Act 1870
1870 Chapter 42
An Act to empower magistrates and town councils of burghs in Scotland to abolish petty customs and to levy a rate in lieu thereof.
Whereas it is expedient to enable the provost, magistrates, and town councils of burghs in Scotland to abolish certain duties or customs styled petty customs, or part thereof, now leviable within certain of such burghs respectively, and to make other provision for the common good of such burghs in lieu thereof :
Be 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 :