Ripon Corporation Act 1901
WHEREAS the city of Ripon is under the management and local government of the mayor aldermen and citizens of the city who acting by the city council are the council of the urban district which comprises the city:

And whereas by the Ripon Corporation Act 1886 (in this Act called "the Act of 1886") the Corporation were empowered amongst other things to construct and maintain a reservoir called the Lumley Moor Reservoir and other waterworks and to take and appropriate part of the waters of the ...