The Southend Gas Act, 1877.
WHEREAS in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four certain persons formed themselves into a company, under the name of the Southend Gaslight and Coke Company, (herein-after referred to as "the old company,") for the purpose of supplying with gas the town of Southend and the neighbourhood thereof, in the parish of Prittlewell in the county of Essex, and for the construction of gasworks, and generally for carrying on the business usually carried on by a gas company, and such company ...