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Bill Number1248Session1787
Title To explain and amend an act passed in the 26th year of his present majesty entitled an act for amending and carrying more effectually into force the several laws now in being for regulating the public gaols and prisons throughout this kingdom.
Initial Bill Stages
Originating Body Commons
Leave or Order 17 Mar 1787Leave or Order to Mr Holmes [1033]
Presented 26 Mar 1787Presented by Mr Holmes [1033]
2nd Reading & Committed 27 Mar 1787   
Reported 12 Apr 1787Reported by Mr Hayes of Avondale [0995]
Sent to Other House 13 Apr 17872nd House Reporter Charles Wilkinson Jones Viscount Ranelagh [4050]
Sent to Chief Governor 18 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.39
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