Leeds Corporation Gas Act 1870
WHEREAS two Companies, called respectively the Leeds Gaslight Company and the Leeds New Gas Company, are engaged in supplying gas to the parish and borough of Leeds, and the township of Roundhay in the parish of Barwick-in-Elmet, all in the west riding of the county of York, under the Acts enumerated in the first schedule to this Act (which two Companies are in this Act referred to as "the Companies"): And whereas it has been agreed and it is expedient that the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses ...