Bridgwater (Corporation) Water Act 1877
WHEREAS the borough of Bridgwater, in the county of Somerset (in this Act called the borough), is a municipal borough under the local management and government, subject and according to the provisions of the Acts relating to municipal corporations and to urban sanitary authorities, of the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough (in this Act called the Corporation):

And whereas the borough and neighbouring parishes and places are at present without a good and sufficient supply of water,...