Leicester Corporation Gas and Water Transfer Act 1878
WHEREAS the borough of Leicester (in this Act called the borough) is a municipal borough, whereof the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses (in this Act called the Corporation) are the urban sanitary authority: And whereas the borough and adjacent places are lighted with gas by the Leicester Gas Company (in this Act called the Gas Company) under the powers of the following Acts of Parliament (in this Act called the Gas Acts); that is to say, The Leicester Gas Act, 1860; The Leicester Gas Act, 1873, ...