The South Metropolitan Gaslight and Coke Company's Act, 1876
WHEREAS the "South Metropolitan Gaslight and Coke Company" (who are herein-after referred to as "the Company") were incorporated by an Act passed in the year 1842, "for more effectually lighting with gas certain places within the borough of Southwark, and other parishes and places, in the counties of Surrey and Kent," and they were for that purpose authorised to raise a capital of two hundred thousand pounds in shares of fifty pounds each, and to raise by loan or by shares an additional sum o...