The Phoenix Gas Act, 1864
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to establish an additional Company for more effectually lighting with Gas certain Places within the Borough of Southwark, and certain other Parishes and Places in the Counties of Surrey and Kent, (which Act is herein-after referred to as "The Phoenix Gas Act, 1824,") the Phoenix Gaslight and Coke Company (herein-after called "the Company") were incorporated, and authorized to purchase Lands, an...