West Riding of Yorkshire County Council (Drainage) Act, 1923
WHEREAS it is desirable that drainage works should be carried out for the better drainage of the land within divers areas in the administrative county of the west riding of Yorkshire and for the protection of such land from flooding and injury by water: And whereas it is expedient that the county council of the said west riding should be constituted the drainage authority for the whole of the said administrative county with such powers as are in this Act contained and that such other provisio...