Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and predecessors: Land Improvement Divisions: Registered Files, Land Improvement, Loans (LI series)

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Details of MAF 238
Reference: MAF 238
Title: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and predecessors: Land Improvement Divisions: Registered Files, Land Improvement, Loans (LI series)
Description:

Files relating to loans for land improvement under the Improvement of Land Acts 1864 and 1899 and subsequent legislation. There are two specimen files for particular loan applications (pieces 7 and 11). The series includes papers relating to the Lands Improvement Company.

In 1940 use of the series was suspended and land improvement matters were dealt with on LOY files (see MAF 139). The use of the LI series was resumed in 1952, but was restricted to land improvement loans.
Date: 1907-1973
Related material:

Other papers relating to short term credit and long term loans for agriculture, including the formation in 1928 of the Agricultural Mortgage Corporation, are in MAF 225
Separated material:

A number of LI files are in MAF 48

Some LI files have been re-registered into the FIS file series; see MAF 315
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: LI file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 30 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Accumulation dates: 1921
Administrative / biographical background:

Several land improvement loan companies were set up under Private Acts of Parliament and empowered to grant loans to landowners to carry out improvements to agricultural land and buildings. The amount of the loan was charged on the land improved in the form of a terminable rent-charge, which was payable half-yearly for a period not exceeding 40 years. These improvement loans were sanctioned, but not funded by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

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