Devonport Corporation (Gas) Act, 1901
WHEREAS the borough of Devonport in the county of Devon is a municipal and county borough under the management and local government of the mayor aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Devonport (in this Act called "the Corporation") who acting by the council are the urban sanitary authority of the borough: And whereas by the Devonport Gas and Coke Act 1853 the Devonport Gas and Coke Company (in this Act called "the company") were constituted and empowered to supply gas within the municipal ...