Dumbarton Waterworks, Reclamation and Municipal Extension Act 1857
WHEREAS the Burgh of Dumbarton and Suburbs thereof, and District and Places adjacent thereto, are at present inadequately supplied with Water, and an ample Supply may be easily and beneficially introduced into the same from the Stream called Overton Burn and certain Tributaries thereof: And whereas certain Lands belonging to the said Burgh, commonly called the Broad Meadow, are now periodically flooded by the Waters of the River Leven; and the Value of the said Lands would be much increased i...