Leicester Improvement Act 1874
An Act to confer further powers on the Corporation of the Borough of Leicester for the Prevention of Floods within the Borough; and for other purposes. [30th June 1874.]

WHEREAS the borough of Leicester (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 the Corporation, acting by the council of the borough, are the sanitary authority for the borough as an urban sa...