The Ilfracombe Gas Act, 1872
WHEREAS certain persons herein-after named are desirous of being formed into a Company for the purpose of lighting with gas the town and parish of Ilfracombe in the county of Devon, and it is expedient that such Company should be incorporated: And whereas the Ilfracombe Gaslight and Coal Company (hereinafter called "the old company") was constituted in the year 1837, and was further regulated under a deed of settlement bearing date the 25th day of February 1850, for the production of gas and ...