Lancaster Gas Company's Act 1856

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1856 c. vi
ANNO DECIMO NONO
VICTORLE REGINiE.
Cap.
vL
An Act for incorporating the Lmicaster Gaslight
Company, and extending their Powers, and for
authorizing additional Works, and the raising of
further Moneys ; and for other Purposes.
[29th April 1856.]
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HERE AS by a Deed of Copartnership dated the Twentieth Deed of
Day of January One thousand eight hundred and twenty- dated^Oth'
six, " The Lancaster Gaslight Company " was established January
for the Purpose of making inflammable Gas, and constructing Works I826-
and Apparatus for procuring the same, and laying Pipes for the
Purpose of lighting the public Streets, Manufactories, Shops, and
other Places within the Borough and Town of Lancaster, and the
adjacent Places ; and by a supplemental Deed, dated the Eighteenth Supple-
Day of June One thousand eight hundred and fifty, the Objects and da^istlT'
Proceedings of the Company were further defined and regulated: June 1850.
And whereas the Share Capital of the Company, under those Deeds,
is Seventeen thousand seven hundred and sixty-six Pounds, divided
into Four hundred and seventy Shares of Thirty-one Pounds Ten
Shillings each, and Pour hundred and seventy Shares of Six Pounds
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58 19° VICTORIA,
CapM.
The Lancaster Gas Company's Act, 1856.
Short Title.
Six Shillings each, all fully paid up: And whereas the Company
have not raised any Moneys on Mortgage or Bond: And whereas
the Company have erected Gasworks and Buildings at or near Saint
George's Quay in Lancaster, and a Gasometer and Buildings in
Edward Street and Moor Lane in Lancaster, and have laid down
Mains and Pipes in and under the Streets of the Borough and Town of
Lancaster, and now supply the Inhabitants with Gas for public and
private Purposes: And whereas it is expedient that the Company
be incorporated, and that they be authorized to raise further Moneys
by Shares and by borrowing, and to construct additional "Works, and
that the Limits within which their Powers shall be exercised be
declared and denned by this Act: And whereas it is expedient that
Provision be made for enabling the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses
of the Borough of Lancaster, or the Local Board of Health of that
Borough, to purchase the Undertaking of the Company, or Part
thereof:
And whereas the Objects of this Act cannot be attained
without the Authority of Parliament: May it therefore please Your
Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen's
most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parlia-
ment assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows; (that
is to say,)
I. In citing this Act for any Purpose whatsoever it shall be
sufficient to use the Expression " The Lancaster Gas Company's
Act, 1856."
8 & 9 Vict.
cc.
16.
&
18.,
and
10 & 11 Vict.
.
15. incor-
porated.
II.
The several Acts of Parliament following; that is to say,
" The Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," " The Lands
Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," (except the Clauses of that Act
" with respect to the Purchase and taking of Lands otherwise than by
Agreement"), and " The Gasworks Clauses Act, 1847," shall be
incorporated with and form Part of this Act; and in construing those
Acts respectively in connexion with this Act, the Expression " the
Special Act" shall mean this Act, the Expressions "the Company"
and " the Undertakers"- respectively shall mean the Company by this
Act incorporated, and the Expressions " the Undertaking" and
" the Gasworks" shall include all the Works of the Company
executed and to be executed.
Same
Mean-
IIL The several Words and Expressions to which Meanings are
mg to Words
respectively assigned by the Acts incorporated herewith, or any of
them, have in this Act the same respective Meanings; and the Expres-
&s
in the
incorporated
Acts.
sion " the original Company
"
in this Act means the Lancaster Gas-
light Company constituted under the recited Deeds of Settlement,
and the Expression " the Company" in this Act means the Company
hereby incorporated, and the Word " Borough" means the Borough
of

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