Newport Corporation Act 1925
WHEREAS the county borough of Newport in the county of Monmouth is a municipal borough and under the government of the mayor aldermen and burgesses thereof (hereinafter called "the Corporation") and the Corporation acting by the council of the borough are the sanitary authority of the borough with the powers and obligations of an urban sanitary authority:

And whereas it is expedient to empower the Corporation to construct street works and to acquire lands for those purposes and for other pur...