Chorley Waterworks Transfer Act 1856
WHEREAS by "The Chorley Waterworks Act, 1846," the Chorley Waterworks Company (in this Act called "the Company") was incorporated and empowered to construct certain Works for supplying the Inhabitants of the Town and Neighbourhood of Chorley in the County of Lancaster with Water; and it was enacted that Fifteen thousand Pounds should be the Capital of the Company, and that it should be lawful for the Company to borrow on Mortgage or Bond Sums not exceeding in the whole Five thousand Pounds; a...