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Grants for public works. 
50 & 51 Vict. c. 16. | 
2.—(1) For the purpose of local loans, there may be issued by the National Debt Commissioners the following sums, namely:— | 
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(a) For the purpose of loans by the Public Works Loan Commissioners, any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole the sum of forty million pounds; | 
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(b) For the purpose of loans by the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole the sum of one million pounds. | 
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(2) The sums so issued shall be issued during a period ending on the day on which a further Act granting money for the purposes of those loans comes into operation, and in accordance with the provisions of the National Debt and Local Loans Act, 1887. |