Dewsbury and Batley Gas Act 1851
WHEREAS by Local and Personal Act, 3 Vict. Cap. 42, the Dewsbury Gas Company were incorporated, and authorized to supply Gas to the Townships of Dewsbury and Batley and the Neighbourhood thereof, and to purchase Lands and construct Works, as they might think fit for such Purpose, and to raise by the Creation of Shares a Capital of Five thousand Pounds, and by Mortgage of their Undertaking the Sum of One thousand two hundred Pounds: And whereas the said Company proceeded to carry the Powers of...