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Bill Number2255Session1787
Title For the better execution of the law and preservation of the peace within the counties at large.
Initial Bill Stages
Originating Body Commons
Leave or Order 31 Jan 1787Leave or Order to John Fitzgibbon Attorney General [0749]
Presented 30 Mar 1787Presented by John Fitzgibbon Attorney General [0749]
2nd Reading & Committed 2 Mar 1787   
Reported 7 Apr 1787Reported by Right Honourable Mr Beresford [0119]
Sent to Other House 9 Apr 17872nd House Reporter Charles Wilkinson Jones Viscount Ranelagh [4050]
Sent to Chief Governor 16 Apr 1787   
Privy Council Stages
Received & Referred to Law Officers3 May 1787 
Petition to English Privy Council None 
Decision of the English Privy Council Approved 
Engrossed 11 May 1787 
Returned Bill Stages
Royal Assent 21 May 1787 
Statute Number 27 George III c.40
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