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Bill Number1588Session1737
Title For granting to his majesty a further additional duty on wine, silk, hops, china, earthen, japanned or lacquered ware, and vinegar, and also a tax of 4s. in the pound on all salaries, profits of employments, fees, and pensions, to be applied to pay an interest of £5 per cent per annum for the sum of £300,000 or such part thereof as shall remain unpaid on the 25th day of December 1737, and towards the discharge of the said principal sum.
Heads of Bill Stages
Originating Body Commons
Leave or Order 18 Nov 1737Leave or Order to Marmaduke Coghill Chancellor of Exchequer [0431]
Read & Committed 19 Nov 1737Presented by Marmaduke Coghill Chancellor of Exchequer [0431]
Reported 22 Nov 1737Reported by Marmaduke Coghill Chancellor of Exchequer [0431]
Sent to Chief Governor 22 Nov 1737   
Privy Council Stages
Decision of the Irish Privy Council Approved 
Received & Referred to Law Officers29 Nov 1737 
Petition to English Privy Council None 
Decision of the English Privy Council Amended 
Engrossed 3 Dec 1737 
Returned Bill Stages
House Presented Commons 
Presented 12 Dec 1737 
Sent to Other House 16 Dec 1737 
Royal Assent 19 Dec 1737 
Statute Number 11 George II c.2
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