Glebe Loan (Ireland) Act, 1870

The Commissioners of Public Works may make advances to such amounts as may be sanctioned.

3. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, during the continuance of this Act, with the sanction of the Treasury to make loans to any person or persons of such sums as the said Commissioners of Public Works may think right and proper, upon the security and subject to the conditions by this Act authorized, for all or any of the purposes following; (that is to say,)

1. The execution of any work.

2. The purchase of any glebe.

3. The discharge of any debt due and incurred before the passing of this Act in the purchase of any dwelling-house for any ecclesiastical person having spiritual charge, as regards members of his own denomination, of the parish or district in which such dwelling-house is situate, or permanently officiating in any church or chapel within such parish or district, or in the purchase of any glebe.