An Act to authorise the Croydon Commercial Gas and Coke Company to acquire further Lands by Agreement; to extend their Works; to raise additional Capital; and for other purposes. [The Croydon Gas Act, 1877.]
WHEREAS by an Act (herein-after referred to as the Act of 1847) passed in the tenth and eleventh years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act for lighting with Gas the Town of Croydon and its vicinity, in the county of Surrey," the Croydon Commercial Gas and Coke Company (who are herein referred to as "the Company") were incorporated for lighting with gas the whole township and parish of Croydon, and by that Act were empowered to raise twenty thousand pounds by shares and six ...