The Dun Drainage Act, 1873
WHEREAS in 1827, in the session of Parliament of the seventh and eighth years of the reign of King George the Fourth, an Act (chapter ninety-four, Local and Personal,) was passed for the draining, embanking, and protecting of low lands on the north side of the River Don below Doncaster, in the west riding of the county of York (which Act is in this Act called the Dun Drainage Act of 1827):

And whereas the preamble of the Dun Drainage Act of 1827 showed that there were in the parishes, townsh...