Weardale and Shildon District Waterworks Act, 1879. An Act for extending the limits within which the Weardale and Shildon District Waterworks Company may supply Water; for empowering them to purchase the Undertaking of the Durham Water Company, to construct additional Works, and to raise additional Capital; and for other purposes.
WHEREAS the Weardale and Shildon District Waterworks Company (in this Act called "the Company") were incorporated by the Weardale and Shildon District Waterworks Act, 1866, (in this Act referred to as "the Act of 1866,") and empowered to execute works and to supply with water the Weardale and Shildon district, consisting of the several parishes, townships, and places comprised within the limits defined by the said Act, and for that purpose to raise a share capital of one hundred and fifty tho...