The Peterborough Gas Act, 1868
WHEREAS the City and Township of Peterborough and the Parish of Saint John the Baptist, Peterborough, and the Parish of the Minster Precincts, Peterborough, in the County of Northampton, and the Neighbourhood thereof, are at present only partly lighted with Gas supplied by Works belonging or reputed to belong to James Sawyer, which are the only Gasworks now used in lighting those Places: And whereas the Population of the City and Township and Parish of Peterborough and the Neighbourhood there...