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Bill Number	3732	Session	1737
Title	For enforcing and making perpetual an act, entitled, an act for the preserving all such ships and goods thereof which shall happen to be forced on shore or stranded upon the coasts of this kingdom, and also for inflicting the punishment of death on such as shall wilfully burn, sink or destroy ships.
Variant Title(s)	To make it felony wilfully to destroy, burn, or cast away ships that are insured, or that have merchant's goods on board, to the prejudice of such merchants, or the insurers.
Heads of Bill Stages
Originating Body		Commons
Leave or Order		13 Dec 1737	Leave or Order to	Thomas Carter Master of the Rolls	[0360]
Read & Committed		21 Dec 1737	Presented by	Thomas Carter Master of the Rolls	[4037]
Reported		29 Dec 1737	Reported by	Thomas Carter Master of the Rolls	[0360]
Sent to Chief Governor		29 Dec 1737
Privy Council Stages
Decision of the Irish Privy Council		Approved
Received & Referred to Law Officers		9 Jan 1738
Petition to English Privy Council		None
Decision of the English Privy Council		Amended
Engrossed		23 Jan 1738
Returned Bill Stages
House Presented		Commons
Presented		14 Feb 1738
Sent to Other House		20 Feb 1738
Royal Assent		23 Mar 1738
Statute Number		11 George II c.9
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Subject: [804] Communications - Water - Shipping Committee: Committee of the Whole House