Commercial Gas Act 1852
WHEREAS by the Local Act of the Tenth George the Fourth, Chapter cxxxvii., the British Gaslight Company (in this Act called the British Company) were incorporated, and were empowered to light with Gas a District defined in that Act near the Eastern Part of the City of London, and to raise a Share Capital of Two hundred thousand Pounds in Five thousand Shares of Forty Pounds each, and to borrow not exceeding Fifty thousand Pounds at Interest on the Security of their Undertaking: And whereas th...