Newport Corporation Act, 1897
WHEREAS the borough of Newport in the county of Monmouth is a municipal borough under the government of the mayor aldermen and burgesses thereof (herein-after called "the Corporation") and is a county borough under the Local Government Acts 1888 and 1894 and the Corporation acting by the council of the borough are the sanitary authority of the borough with the powers and obligations of an urban authority: And whereas by the Newport (Monmouthshire) Corporation Water Act 1888 (in this Act calle...