Court of Probate (Ireland) Act, 1861

Birkenhead to be a borough and to return one member.

9. Birkenhead in the county of Cheshire shall for the purposes of this Act be a borough, and shall return one member to serve in Parliament; it shall as such borough include the places following; that is to say, the extra parochial chapelry of Birkenhead, the several townships of Claughton Tranmere, and Oxton, and so much of the township of Higher Bebbington as lies to the eastward of the road leading from Higher Tranmere to Lower Bebbington.

[Ss. 10, 13 rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66. (S.L.R.) Ss. 11, 12, 14, 15 rep. 55 & 56 Vict. c. 19. (S.L.R.)]