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Bill Number0614Session1755
Title To prevent unlawful combinations of tenants, colliers, miners and others, and the sending of threatening letters without names or with fictitious names subscribed thereto, and the malicious destruction of carriages, and for the more effectual punishment of wicked persons, who shall maliciously set fire to houses or outhouses, or to stacks of hay, corn, straw or turf, or to ships or boats.
Variant Title(s) To prevent unlawful combinations of tenants and others, and the sending of threatening letters without names or with fictitious names subscribed thereto, and the malicious destruction of carriages, and for the more effectual punishment of wicked persons, who shall maliciously set fire to houses or outhouses, or to stacks of hay, corn, straw or turf, or to ships or boats [26 Jan, 2, 27 Feb].

To prevent unlawful combinations of tenants, colliers, miners and others, and the sending of threatening letters without names or with fictitious names subscribed thereto, and the malicious destruction of carriages, and for the more effectual punishment of wicked persons, who shall maliciously set fire to houses or outhouses, or to stacks of hay, corn, straw or turf, or to ships or boats. [27 Feb]
Heads of Bill Stages
Originating Body Commons
Leave or Order 26 Jan 1756Leave or Order to Sir Richard Cox [0508]
Read & Committed 2 Feb 1756Presented by Sir Richard Cox [0508]
Reported 27 Feb 1756Reported by Sir Richard Cox [0508]
Sent to Chief Governor 27 Feb 1756   
Privy Council Stages
Decision of the Irish Privy Council Approved 
Received & Referred to Law Officers4 Apr 1756 
Petition to English Privy Council None 
Decision of the English Privy Council Amended 
Engrossed 10 Apr 1756 
Returned Bill Stages
House Presented Commons 
Presented 27 Apr 1756 
Sent to Other House 30 Apr 1756 
Royal Assent 8 May 1756 
Statute Number 29 George II c.12
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