University of Leeds Act, 1904
WHEREAS the Yorkshire College was in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight constituted and incorporated under the Companies Acts 1862 and 1867 as an association not for profit with the object of founding endowing and maintaining in the county of York a college or colleges and by means thereof and otherwise of promoting the education of persons of both sexes and in particular of providing instruction in such sciences and arts as are applicable or ancillary to the manufacturing ...