Grantham Gas Act 1874
WHEREAS by a deed of settlement dated the twenty-first day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three the Grantham Gaslight and Coke Company (herein-after referred to as "the old Company") were established and incorporated for the purpose of supplying with gas the town of Grantham, and the places adjacent, in the county of Lincoln:
And whereas the capital of the old Company is twenty-five thousand pounds, divided into one thousand two hundred and fifty shares of twenty pounds each...