Basingstoke Gas Act, 1887.
WHEREAS certain persons under a deed of settlement dated the twenty-second day of May one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four (hereinafter referred to as "the deed of settlement") formed themselves into a gas company under the name of "the Basingstoke Gas and Coke Company" (hereinafter called "the original Company") for the purpose of supplying the town of Basingstoke in the county of Southampton with inflammable air or gas: And whereas the present share capital of the original Company con...