Thames Valley Drainage Act 1874
WHEREAS an Act was passed in the session of Parliament held in the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act for the draining of Lands adjoining and near to the River Thames and its tributaries in the counties of Berks, Oxford, Wilts, and Gloucester, and for other purposes," the short title of which Act is, "The Thames Valley Drainage Act, 1871," herein-after called the Act of 1871:

And whereas by the said Act Commissioners were incorporated ...