Wigan Corporation Act 1889
CHAPTER cc. An Act to make better provision for the health local government and improvement of the Borough of Wigan and to provide for the creation and issue of Corporation Stock and for other purposes. [26th August 1889.]

WHEREAS the borough of Wigan in the county palatine of Lancaster is a municipal borough under the government of the mayor aldermen and burgesses thereof (in this Act called "the Corporation") acting by the council and the Corporation acting as aforesaid are the urban sanit...