Sunderland Gas Act 1857
An Act for more effectually supplying with Gas the Town and Borough of Sunderland and the Neighbourhood thereof in the County of Durham. [26th June 1857.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "The Sunderland Gas Act, 1846," whereby the Sunderland Corporation Gas Company were incorporated, and were authorized to erect Gasworks, and to purchase Lands, and to supply Gas within certain Limits in such Act defined, and were empowered to raise fo...