Tavistock Urban District Council Act 1912
WHEREAS the district of Tavistock in the county of Devon (in this Act called "the district") is an urban district and is under the government of the Tavistock Urban District Council (in this Act called "the Council"): And whereas the Most Noble Herbrand Duke of Bedford K.G. is or is reputed to be the life tenant of estates which included until recently nearly the whole of the town of Tavistock and the neighbourhood thereof and he and his predecessors have for the better development of his est...