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Bill Number	1823	Session	1725
Title	To prevent marriages by degraded clergymen and Popish priests, and for preventing marriages consummated from being avoided by pre-contracts, and for the more effectual punishing of bigamy.
Variant Title(s)	To prevent marriages by degraded clergymen and Popish priests. To prevent marriages by degraded clergymen and Popish priests, and for preventing marriages consummated from being avoided by pre-contracts, and for the more effectual punishing of bigamy. [IPC]
Heads of Bill Stages
Originating Body		Commons
Leave or Order		27 Nov 1725	Leave or Order to	Mr Ward	[2180]
Read & Committed		29 Nov 1725	Presented by	Mr Ward	[2180]
Reported		9 Dec 1725	Reported by	Mr Ram	[6086]
Sent to Chief Governor		9 Dec 1725
Privy Council Stages
Decision of the Irish Privy Council		Approved
Received & Referred to Law Officers		21 Jan 1726
Petition to English Privy Council		–
Decision of the English Privy Council		Amended
Engrossed		12 Feb 1726
Returned Bill Stages
House Presented		Commons
Presented		25 Feb 1726
Sent to Other House		3 Mar 1726
Royal Assent		8 Mar 1726
Statute Number		12 George I c.3
[+] Further Details
Privy Council Notes: ‘humble petition of Thomas, lord baron of Caher, Thomas Power Daly, esquire, and John Reilly, esquire, on behalf of themselves and several of his majesty’s Roman Catholic subjects in Ireland, praying to be heard by their counsel against three bills [not named, but must be 1823, 2083 and 2877] lately transmitted from Ireland in which are contained several clauses and provisoes whereby the petitioners and others his majesty’s subjects will be much aggrieved’; referred to EPC committee. 21 Jan. 1725[6]. (PC 2/89, pp 141-2). Subjects: [304] Law And Order - Law - Marriages [412] Religion - Non-anglican Religions - Popery Committee: Committee of the Whole House