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Bill Number1589Session1739
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 1739, and towards the discharge of the said principal sum.
Heads of Bill Stages
Originating Body Commons
Leave or Order 15 Nov 1739Leave or Order to Thomas Carter Master of the Rolls [0360]
Read & Committed 16 Nov 1739Presented by Thomas Carter Master of the Rolls [0360]
Reported 19 Nov 1739Reported by Thomas Carter Master of the Rolls [0360]
Sent to Chief Governor 19 Nov 1739   
Privy Council Stages
Decision of the Irish Privy Council Approved 
Received & Referred to Law Officers27 Nov 1739 
Petition to English Privy Council None 
Decision of the English Privy Council Amended 
Engrossed 3 Dec 1739 
Returned Bill Stages
House Presented Commons 
Presented 13 Dec 1739 
Sent to Other House 17 Dec 1739 
Royal Assent 19 Dec 1739 
Statute Number 13 George II c.2
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