Shrewsbury Corporation Act 1909
WHEREAS the borough of Shrewsbury (in this Act referred to as "the borough") is under the management and local government of the mayor aldermen and burgesses of the borough (in this Act called "the Corporation") who acting by the council are the council of the urban district which comprises the borough:

And whereas the navigation of the River Severn which flows through the borough for a distance of several miles was by an Act of Parliament passed in the ninth year of the reign of His Majesty...