Devonport Waterworks Act 1889: An Act for conferring further powers on the Company of Proprietors of the Plymouth Dock Waterworks for changing the name of the Company and for other purposes.
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the thirty-third year of the reign of King George the Third chapter eighty-five intituled "An Act for supplying the towns of Plymouth Dock Stoke Damarel Stonehouse and the parts adjacent in the county of Devon with water" the Company of Proprietors of the Plymouth Dock Waterworks (in this Act called "the Company") were incorporated and empowered to supply the towns of Plymouth Dock Stoke Damarel and Stonehouse and places adjacent with water:

And whereas by the Ply...