Rotherham Corporation Act, 1896
WHEREAS the borough of Rotherham in the county of York is a municipal borough under the government of the mayor aldermen and burgesses of the borough (in this Act referred to as "the Corporation") and the Corporation acting by the town council are the urban sanitary authority for the district of the borough:

And whereas the undertakings for the supply of gas and water throughout the borough of Rotherham and certain places adjoining thereto are in the hands of the Corporation and they have ex...