Prescot Gas Act 1867
WHEREAS in the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-six certain Persons, formed themselves into a Company under the Name of "the Prescot Gaslight Company," for lighting the Town of Prescot and the Neighbourhood thereof in the County of Lancaster with Gas (which Company is in this Act called "the old Company"); And whereas the Share Capital of the old Company consists of Four hundred Shares of Ten Pounds each, the whole of which has been subscribed for and paid up and expended; And where...