The East India Loan Act 1873
WHEREAS the Security Fund of the India Company created by Act third and fourth William Fourth, chapter eighty-five, is insufficient to redeem or commute the capital stock of the East India Company, and it is expedient that the Secretary of State in Council of India should be enabled to raise money in the United Kingdom on the credit of the revenues of India, in order to redeem or commute such capital stock, and also, to a limited amount, for temporary purposes: Be it therefore enacted by the ...