Act Info:
THE ORIENTAL GAS COMPANY ACT, 1857
[Act, No. 5 of 1857]
[AS ON 1957]
[13th February, 1857]
PREAMBLE
An Act to confer certain powers on the Oriental Gas Company, Limited.
WHEREAS a Joint Stock Company has been lately formed for the purpose of introducing Gas-works into India which Company having been completely registered in England under the Act of Parliament of the eighth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, Cap.110, has since been registered in England under "The Joint Stock Companies' Act 1856" with limited liabilities and has duly obtained a certificate of incorporation under the name of the Oriental Gas Company Limited and whereas the said Company has erected Gas-works on land granted for that purpose by Government in the vicinity of the Town of Calcutta and is engaged in the preparation of apparatus and materials for the manufacture and supply of Gas fir lighting the said Town and where as it is expedient that powers and facilities should be given to the said company to enable then to carry out their undertaking of lighting with Gas the said Town of Calcutta which powers and facilities may hereafter be extended to the operations of the said Company in other towns and places it is enacted as follows:---