An Act for authorizing the South Shields Gas Company to extend their Works and increase their Capital; and for other Purposes.
WHEREAS by "The South Shields Gas Act, 1857," in this Act called "the Act of 1857," the South Shields Gas Company (hereafter in this Act called "the Company") was incorporated, and authorized to supply Gas within the Borough of South Shields and the Parish of Jarrow in the County of Durham, both without as well as within the Borough: And whereas the Capital of the Company was declared by the Act of 1857 to be Forty thousand Pounds, whereof Twenty thousand Pounds was called the original Capita...