Colne Gas Act 1877
WHEREAS by certain Articles of Agreement, dated the seventeenth day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, several persons formed themselves into a society or company to be called the Colne Gaslight and Coke Company (in this Act referred to as "the Society"), for the purpose of making gas and therewith lighting the streets, houses, mills, and other places in the town and neighbourhood of Colne, in the county of Lancaster: And whereas the Society have erected gasworks, and ha...