The Newport (Isle of Wight) Gas Act, 1870
WHEREAS the borough of Newport and the parishes of Carisbrooke, Whippingham, and St. Nicholas, in the Isle of Wight in the county of Southampton, are now supplied with gas from works situate upon the lands set forth in the schedule to this Act:  

And whereas it would be to the public advantage that the said parishes should be supplied with gas by a company to whose undertaking the provisions of the "Gasworks Clauses Act, 1847," should be applicable, and the persons in this Act named in that ...