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Bill Number	2922	Session	1779
Title	For allowing further time to persons in offices or employments to qualify themselves pursuant to an act entitled an act to prevent the further growth of Popery.
Heads of Bill Stages
Originating Body		Commons
Leave or Order		8 Nov 1779	Leave or Order to	Mr Robert Fitzgerald	[0744]
Read & Committed		22 Nov 1779	Presented by	Mr Robert Fitzgerald	[0744]
Reported		25 Nov 1779	Reported by	Mr Robert Fitzgerald	[0744]
Sent to Chief Governor		25 Nov 1779
Privy Council Stages
Decision of the Irish Privy Council		Approved
Received & Referred to Law Officers		29 Jan 1780
Petition to English Privy Council		None
Decision of the English Privy Council		Approved
Engrossed		1 Mar 1780
Returned Bill Stages
House Presented		Commons
Presented		11 Apr 1780
Sent to Other House		—
Royal Assent		—
Statute Number
[+] Further Details
English Privy Council Records: Report of law officers to EPC committee. 22 Feb. 1780. (PC 1/12/7). Privy Council Notes: No regular order referring this bill, but note as follows: '29th January 1780 - Memorandum this day were sent for Mr Attorney General the Irish qualification bill - protestant dissenters - and the flaxen hemp bill' (PC 2/124, p. 518, 19 Jan. 1780). Subject: [411] Religion - Non-anglican Religions - Protestant dissent Committee: Committee of the Whole House