South Shields Gas Act, 1904.
WHEREAS by the South Shields Gas Act 1857 (herein-after referred to as "the Act of 1857") the South Shields Gas Company (herein-after referred to as "the Company") were incorporated and empowered to supply with gas the borough of South Shields and the parish of Jarrow and by that Act the share capital of the Company was fixed at forty thousand pounds whereof twenty thousand pounds was to be called "original capital" and twenty thousand pounds "additional capital" and the Company were authoris...