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Bill Number	2260	Session	1775
Title	For the regulating the trials of peers and peeresses in cases of capital offences.
Heads of Bill Stages
Originating Body		Lords
Leave or Order		—	Leave or Order to	No leave recorded	[7000]
Read & Committed		23 Nov 1775	Presented by	Charles Coote Earl of Bellamont	[0480]
Reported		24 Nov 1775	Reported by	James Caulfeild Earl of Charlemont	[4015]
Sent to Chief Governor		24 Nov 1775
Privy Council Stages
Decision of the Irish Privy Council		Approved
Received & Referred to Law Officers		18 Dec 1775
Petition to English Privy Council		None
Decision of the English Privy Council		Amended
Engrossed		8 Mar 1776
Returned Bill Stages
House Presented		Lords
Presented		18 Mar 1776
Sent to Other House		23 Mar 1776
Royal Assent		4 Apr 1776
Statute Number		15 & 16 George III c.29
[+] Further Details
English Privy Council Records: Report of law officers to EPC committee.* 6 Mar. 1776. (PC 1/15/81). Privy Council Notes: 'The lords of the committee this day took into consideration … referred back to [law officers] to reconsider the same and to make such alterations therein as shall render it conformable to the statute passed in England [7 & 8 Will. III] entitled "an act for regulating of trials in cases of treason and misprision of treason".' (PC 2/119, p. 324, 6 Feb. 1776). Subjects: [112] Government - Legislature - Parliamentary privilege [300] Law And Order - Law - Criminal law [310] Law And Order - Order - Legal administration and procedure Committee: Committee of the Whole House