The Metropolis Sewage and Essex Reclamation Act, 1865
WHEREAS by "The Metropolis Management Act, 1855," it was (Section 135) enacted (among other things) that the Metropolitan Board of Works (hereafter in this Act called "the Board") should make such Sewers and Works as they might think necessary for preventing all or any Part of the Sewage within the Metropolis from flowing or passing into the River Thames in or near the Metropolis, and that all Sewers and Works made by the Board should vest in them, and that the Board should cause the Sewers v...