Ashton-under-Lyne Corporation Act 1893
WHEREAS the borough of Ashton-under-Lyne in the county palatine of Lancaster is a municipal borough under the management and local government of the mayor aldermen and burgesses of the borough (in this Act called the Corporation) and the Corporation acting by the council are the urban sanitary authority for the district of the borough: And whereas the unrepealed provisions of the following local Acts (besides several Orders confirmed by Parliament) are in force within or relate to the borough...