Coventry Gas Act 1856
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the First and Second Years of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for incorporating the City of Coventry Gaslight Company, such Company was authorized to supply Gas to the City of Coventry and the Suburbs thereof, and to purchase Lands and construct Works, and to raise by the Creation of Eight hundred Shares of Twenty-five Pounds each a Capital of Twenty thousand Pounds: And whereas the said Company pr...