The Hartlepool Gas and Waterworks Act, 1855
WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for amending an Act passed in the Tenth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, for lighting with Gas and supplying with Water the Town of Hartlepool and the Neighbourhood thereof in the County of Durham, whereby the Company thereby incorporated were empowered to raise the Sum of Thirty-four thousand Pounds by Shares, and any Sum not exceeding One Third of the said Sum of Thirty-four thous...