Bath Gas Act 1856
WHEREAS by the Local and Personal Act, 58th George the Third, Chapter 55, the Bath Gaslight and Coke Company (herein-after called "the Company") was incorporated for the Purpose of producing Carburetted Hydrogen or Coal Gas, Coke, Oil, Tar, Pitch, Asphaltum, Ammoniacal Liquor, and Essential Oil from Coal, with Powers for lighting the City of Bath and the Liberties and Precincts thereof, and that Part of the Parish of Walcot which lies without the Liberties of Bath, and the Parish of Bathwick,...