Wakefield Corporation Act 1889: An Act to empower the Corporation of Wakefield to make additional Waterworks and for other purposes.
WHEREAS Her Majesty has by Royal Charter dated the eleventh day of July in the fifty-second year of Her reign (1888) declared that the borough of Wakefield in the west riding of the county of York shall be a city and shall be called and styled the city of Wakefield and that the mayor aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Wakefield shall henceforth be one body politic and corporate by the name and style of the mayor aldermen and citizens of the city of Wakefield (in this Act called the Corp...