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Bill Number	2620	Session	1757
Title	To enable the parties in a suit now depending in his majesty's court of chancery in Ireland, wherein the Right Honourable Arthur Hill, esquire, and Ann Hill, otherwise Stafford his wife, are plaintiffs, and the Reverend Samuel Hutchinson, dean of Dromore, and several others, are defendants, to raise the sum of £5,500 and interest, and to pay the same to the plaintiffs, pursuant to an agreement, in order finally to end the said suit amicably, as also to raise the money expended by the defendants in defending the said suit, and to defray the expenses that shall attend the passing of this act, and to enable Henry Hutchinson O'Hara, esquire, and also the Reverend Hutchinson Hamilton, clerk, and Charles Hamilton, esquire, to make leases of certain lands in this bill particularly mentioned, and to preserve the contingent remainders limited by the will of the Right Reverend Francis Hutchinson, late lord bishop of Down and Connor, from being defeated and destroyed.
Heads of Bill Stages
Originating Body		Commons
Leave or Order		17 Dec 1757	Leave or Order to	Honourable Barry Maxwell	[1372]
Read & Committed		19 Dec 1757	Presented by	Honourable Mr Barry Maxwell	[1372]
Reported		22 Dec 1757	Reported by	Mr Le Hunte	[1216]
Sent to Chief Governor		22 Dec 1757
Privy Council Stages
Decision of the Irish Privy Council		Approved
Received & Referred to Law Officers		1 Mar 1758
Petition to English Privy Council		None
Decision of the English Privy Council		Approved
Engrossed		1 Apr 1758
Returned Bill Stages
House Presented		Commons
Presented		21 Apr 1758
Sent to Other House		25 Apr 1758
Royal Assent		29 Apr 1758
Statute Number		31 George II c.5 (private)
[+] Further Details
Privy Council Notes: no amend Subject: [000] Personal - Wealth - Estates broadly defined, inc. settlements, specific leases, jointures Committee: Committee of the Whole House Procedural Features: Initiating Petition Comments on Procedural Features: Initiating petition: 16 Dec. 1757.