Halifax Corporation Waterworks Act, 1888
WHEREAS the borough of Halifax in the west riding of the county of York (herein-after in this Act referred to as "the borough") is a municipal borough under the government of the mayor aldermen and burgesses thereof (in this Act referred to as "the Corporation") and the Corporation acting by the council are the sanitary authority for the district of the borough with the powers and obligations of an urban sanitary authority:
And whereas by the Halifax Improvement Act 1853 the Corporation were ...