 The Act also provided for funding of these payments out of the general funds of the British government as a repayable loan to the South Australian government, if payments could not be met.The Act also cleared the South Australian government of an earlier £155,000 loan from general funds of the British government.Its chapter number is 5 & 6 Vict c. 61, meaning the 61st act that was passed in the reign of Queen Victoria, that started in the fifth year of her reign and finished in the sixth.