The Local Government Act 1858
WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Public Health Act, 1848, and to make further Provisions for the Local Government of Towns and populous Districts in England: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows; that is to say,