Houghton-le-Spring District Gas Act 1912
WHEREAS by the Houghton-le-Spring District Gas Act 1879 (hereinafter called "the Act of 1879") the Houghton-le-Spring District Gas Company (hereinafter called "the Company") were incorporated for the purposes of taking over the Houghton Gasworks and the manufacture and supply of gas within the townships of Houghton-le-Spring Newbottle and East Rainton in the county of Durham:

And whereas the capital of the Company authorised by the Act of 1879 is twenty thousand pounds divided into two thous...