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Bill Number	1709	Session	1707
Title	For the further and better encouragement of the hempen and flaxen manufacture in this kingdom.
Heads of Bill Stages
Originating Body		Commons
Leave or Order		2 Aug 1707	Leave or Order to	Committee [Sir Thomas Southwell]	[1968]
Read & Committed		9 Aug 1707	Presented by	Sir Thomas Southwell	[1968]
Reported		14 Aug 1707	Reported by	Sir Thomas Southwell	[1968]
Sent to Chief Governor		14 Aug 1707
Privy Council Stages
Decision of the Irish Privy Council		Approved
Received & Referred to Law Officers		8 Sep 1707
Petition to English Privy Council		None
Decision of the English Privy Council		Amended
Engrossed		24 Sep 1707
Returned Bill Stages
House Presented		Commons
Presented		16 Oct 1707
Sent to Other House		25 Oct 1707
Royal Assent		30 Oct 1707
Statute Number		6 Anne c.9
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Privy Council Notes: 'reported to her majesty in council and approved and ordered to be engrossed, wherein certain premiums are allowed in the respective counties where the said manufacture shall be erected. It is this day ordered by her majesty in council that the right honourable the lord high treasurer do prepare a letter for her majesty’s royal signature signifying her majesty’s pleasure to his excellency the lord lieutenant of Ireland, that the said premiums be paid out of the present allowances made on the establishment of that kingdom for the encouraging the said linen manufacture.' (24 Sept. 1707, PC 2/81, p. 464). Extant Copies: B.L., Add. MS 61633, f. 190. George Dodington to [Sunderland], 14 Aug. 1707. Parliament adjourned. Sends list of bills which have passed both houses and will soon be sent to England. Recommends public bills, 'believing them to be consistent with the dependence of this kingdom on the crown of Great Britain. And if in anything they differ from the laws and customs of England, it is in cases that require a peculiar remedy and proper for the circumstances of this country...'. B.L., Add. MS 61633, f. 191. List of bills passed the house of commons and house of lords in 1707 session. This bill is no. 20 in the list, as linen bill. Subjects: [741] Economy - Other Manufactures - Other textiles [759] Economy - Internal Trade - Miscellaneous Committee: Committee of the Whole House Procedural Features: Initiating Petition; Later Petition; Special Presentation of Heads Comments on Procedural Features: Initiating petition: 21 July 1707. Later petitions: 26, 29 July, 1, 2 Aug. 1707.