An Act to enable the Runcorn Gas Company to raise additional capital; to construct new works; and for other purposes.
WHEREAS by the Runcorn Gas Act 1847 (in this Act called "the Act of 1847"), the Runcorn Gas Company (in this Act called "the Company") were incorporated for the purpose of supplying gas in Runcorn and certain neighbouring townships and places in the county of Chester, and in Widnes in the county of Lancaster: And whereas the share capital of the Company, authorised by the Act of 1847, is forty thousand pounds, the whole of which has been issued and subscribed for, and nearly all fully paid up...