Ironvill Freehold Land Society Holds Annual Meeting
The Ironvill Freehold Land Investment Society met May 23 1851 in the Ironvill Infant School-room with Mr Smith presiding. The chair praised the committee's work and re elected the retiring committee and officers. The secretary read a year end report, tracing the society's origin in March 1850 and noting shares, transfers and forfeitures, with plans to allot land to members and a new fortnightly subscription structure. The committee praised James Price for financial aid and commended Brecon-road estate allotments for diligence in cultivation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ironvill Freehold Land Investment Society
L Ironvill
Smith
Cons. Snort
Joan Reynowds
P. W. Bowne
France Harpy
Ironvill
Taylor
Birmingham
Madeley
Derby
Butterleypark
Greaves
W. Needham
Butterley Company
Messrs
J. Taylor Son
T. Madeley
R. Wallington
R. Waplington
Abergavenny Freehold Land Society Marks First Anniversary
On Wednesday in Abergavenny the Freehold Land Society celebrated its first anniversary at the Town-hall. The society reports rapid progress with £5718 spent on property, one hundred allotments allocated among seventy shareholders, and a new estate near the Brecon road named Cantréf a hundred homes. The Mardee farm of forty nine acres with two roads and eight poles is secured, and further division among shareholders is expected before the next annual meeting. The committee defends the high Brecon road price as prudent with sanction of a general meeting, while drainage concerns on the Brecon road estate remain disputed but hopeful of resolution.
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Mardee
James Price
Price
Brecon-road
Brecon Road
Meeting on Freehold Land aims in Barking Essex
In Barking Essex a meeting in the Arnold school lecture-room hosted a deputation from the National Freehold Land Association. Mr Greaves chaired a businesslike session as Mr Clarke spoke on social and political aims behind Freehold Land Societies. Mr Whittingham described how the National Society supports those aims and Mr Shand urged group effort. A subscription meeting followed with 25 shares taken, expected to grow.
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Arnold School
National Freehold Land Association
Greaves
E. Clarke
Whittingham
National Society
Shand
Evicting Forty Shillings a Year and Freehold Voting
A discussion on freehold voting rights under reform acts and mortgage conditions. It cites Copeland v Bartlett and 6 and 7 Vic c 18 as establishing that a mortgagor in possession may vote if rents and profits yield forty shillings after charges. It warns purchasers to secure a clear income after debts to qualify as county voters, and notes the role of Freehold Land Societies in providing paths to vote for members with limited means.
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Copeland
Bartlett
Law Journal Reports
N.S
Building Societies Act
The
Common Pleas
Freehold
Extinguishing Vesuvius fires proposal sparks debate
The Lafontaine Courier cites a plan to dig a sea to crater canal at Vesuvius with a two million dollar price tag to end millennia of burning. Advocates argue lands reclaimed would cover costs many times over.
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Nove
Lafontaine Courier
Vesuvius
Preston
Bengrir Burpine Societies
Scratchley
Insurance Against Landlords Debate on Tenant Seizure Laws
The writer condemns unjust laws that allow landlords to seize lodgers goods for unpaid rent. He notes lodgers fear sudden seizures of furnished or unfurnished effects and calls for an insurance against landlord power, wondering what protection possible.
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Ironvill Land Society
Abergavenny
Barking, Essex
Willam Coxz Fincuam
London
C. Gilpin
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