The Irish Reproductive Loan Fund Act, 1874
WHEREAS in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two a large sum of money was subscribed in England for the purpose of relieving the distress arising from scarcity of food in Ireland, and the residue of such sum after affording relief in such distress, under the name of the "Irish Reproductive Loan Fund," was vested in a charitable association called the "Irish Reproductive Loan Fund Institution," to be held by them on trust to lend the same at interest to the industrious poor in the...