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Bill Number1594Session1749
Title For payment of the principal sums of £70,000 and £58,500, in discharge for so much of the national debt, and for granting to his majesty an additional duty on wine, silk, hops, china, earthen, japanned or lacquered ware, and vinegar, and also a tax of 4 s. in the pound on all salaries, profits of employments, fees and pensions, to be applied to discharge the interest of the said principal sums, until the same shall be paid, and also to pay an interest of £4 per cent per annum for the sum of £250,000, which will remain due after the payments aforesaid, and an interest of £4 per cent per annum for such further sums as may hereafter be borrowed, pursuant to an act, passed in the 19th year of his present majesty's reign, and towards the discharge of the said principal sum of £250,000.
Heads of Bill Stages
Originating Body Commons
Leave or Order 11 Nov 1749Leave or Order to Thomas Carter Master of the Rolls [0360]
Read & Committed 13 Nov 1749Presented by Anthony Malone Prime Serjeant [1336]
Reported 14 Nov 1749Reported by Anthony Malone Prime Serjeant [1336]
Sent to Chief Governor 14 Nov 1749   
Privy Council Stages
Decision of the Irish Privy Council Approved 
Received & Referred to Law Officers21 Nov 1749 
Petition to English Privy Council None 
Decision of the English Privy Council Amended 
Engrossed 4 Dec 1749 
Returned Bill Stages
House Presented Commons 
Presented 18 Dec 1749 
Sent to Other House 21 Dec 1749 
Royal Assent 23 Dec 1749 
Statute Number 23 George II c.2
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