Oldham Corporation Act 1886
WHEREAS the borough of Oldham in the county of Lancaster is a municipal borough subject to the Acts relating to municipal corporations and the mayor aldermen and burgesses of the said borough acting by the council are the urban sanitary authority therefor: And whereas by the Oldham Borough Improvement Act 1865 (in this Act referred to as "the Act of 1865") powers were continued to and conferred upon the Corporation with respect to the supply of water to the borough and its neighbourhood and b...