The Lincoln Gaslight and Coke Company's Act, 1873
WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament passed in the ninth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, and intituled "An Act for lighting with Gas the City of Lincoln and the Bail and Close of Lincoln in the County of Lincoln" (and herein-after called "the existing Act"), the Lincoln Gaslight and Coke Company (herein-after called "the Company") were incorporated, and were (amongst other things) authorised to manufacture and supply gas to the several places in the said existing Act ...