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Bill Number1593Session1747
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 upon such part of the sum of £100,000, part of the sum of £300,000, formerly raised, and to pay an interest of £4 per cent per annum upon such part of the sum of £250,000 also formerly raised, as shall remain unpaid of the said 25th day of December, 1747, as also to pay an interest of 4 per cent per annum for such part of the sum of £70,000, as hath been, or shall be, borrowed, pursuant to an act passed the last session of parliament, and towards the discharge of the said principal sums.
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Originating Body Commons
Leave or Order 14 Nov 1747Leave or Order to Thomas Carter Master of the Rolls [0360]
Read & Committed 14 Nov 1747Presented by St George Caulfeild Attorney General [0371]
Reported 15 Nov 1747Reported by Anthony Malone Prime serjeant [1336]
Sent to Chief Governor 15 Nov 1747   
Privy Council Stages
Decision of the Irish Privy Council Approved 
Received & Referred to Law Officers22 Nov 1747 
Petition to English Privy Council None 
Decision of the English Privy Council Amended 
Engrossed 3 Dec 1747 
Returned Bill Stages
House Presented Commons 
Presented 9 Dec 1747 
Sent to Other House 14 Dec 1747 
Royal Assent 21 Dec 1746 
Statute Number 21 George II c.2
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