Kingston-upon-Hull Water Act, 1872
WHEREAS King Henry the Sixth, by a charter of the tenth day of March, in the twenty-fifth year of his reign, granted and gave license to the corporation of the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Kingston-upon-Hull (in this Act called the Corporation) by their then style of the mayor and burgesses of the town or borough of Kingston-upon-Hull, and to their successors, that they might acquire springs within the county of Kingston-upon-Hull, and dig on land to be acquired by them fr...