The Metropolitan Board of Works (Loans) Act 1875
WHEREAS it is expedient that the raising of money by the Metropolitan Board of Works for the following purposes: (a.) Expenditure by them for general improvements and contributions; (b.) Fire brigade purposes; (c.) Loans to vestries and district boards and boards of guardians and some other bodies; be regulated, and that provision be made requiring that the borrowing powers granted to the Board by Parliament should for the future be limited both in time and in amount, and that in some other r...