An Act to alter and amend the Metropolis Local Management Act (1855), and to extend the Powers of the Metropolitan Board of Works for the Purification of the Thames and the Main Drainage of the Metropolis.
WHEREAS it is necessary, with a view to the Health of the Metropolis, that Works should be speedily undertaken and completed for the Purification of the Thames and for the Improvement of the Drainage of the Metropolis, and for this Purpose it is expedient that the Act of the Session holden in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years of Her Majesty, "for the better Local Management of the Metropolis," should be amended: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and...