Middlesex County Council Act, 1898.
WHEREAS owing to the rapid increase of the population of the county of Middlesex by reason of its proximity to the metropolis and to the abstraction of water from the rivers and streams in the said county or some of them for navigation and other purposes and to the irregularity of the flow of water therein occasioned thereby and other exceptional circumstances which obtain in that county the waters of the River Brent and of other streams in that county or parts thereof are especially in dry s...