Swansea Improvements and Tramways Act 1874
WHEREAS the borough of Swansea, in the county of Glamorgan, (in this Act called the borough,) is a municipal borough under the government of the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough (in this Act called the Corporation):

And whereas in parts of the borough the streets are narrow and irregular and incommodious, and many of the houses therein are old and badly situate, and in bad condition in sanitary respects; and by reason of the narrowness of these streets, and from other causes, th...