MAF 661851-1957Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Land Improvement Loans
Registers of loans under various Acts of Parliament to individual land owners for drainage and other purposes. Also the surviving registers kept by the Inclosure Commissioners of the loans made through four of the Land Improvement Companies: The General Land Drainage and Improvement Company, The Land Improvement Company, The Scottish Drainage and Improvement Company, and The Land Loan and Enfranchisement Company, and registers of the loans advanced directly by the Inclosure Commissioners out of Exchequer monies.
The registers record such details as the amounts of the loans, to whom they were made, the areas in which they were made, and the purpose for which they were used. In addition, there are minute books, cash books and journals kept by certain of the companies.