The Working Men’s Dwellings Act, 1874
WHEREAS it is expedient to encourage the erection of dwelling-houses suitable for persons employed in manual labour, and to afford increased facilities for the acquisition of sites for such dwelling-houses: Be it therefore 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 Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: