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Bill Number	1573	Session	1783
Title	To secure the liberty of the press by preventing abuses arising from the publication of traitorous, seditious, false and slanderous libels.
Initial Bill Stages
Originating Body		Commons
Leave or Order		7 Apr 1784	Leave or Order to	Right Honourable Mr Foster	[6052]
Presented		8 Apr 1784	Presented by	Right Honourable Mr Foster	[6052]
2nd Reading & Committed		10 Apr 1784
Reported		12 Apr 1784	Reported by	Mr Mason	[1352]
Sent to Other House		13 Apr 1784	2nd House Reporter	Charles Wilkinson Jones Viscount Ranelagh	[4050]
Sent to Chief Governor		17 Apr 1784
Privy Council Stages
Received & Referred to Law Officers		28 Apr 1784
Petition to English Privy Council		None
Decision of the English Privy Council		Approved
Engrossed		30 Apr 1784
Returned Bill Stages
Royal Assent		14 May 1784
Statute Number		23 & 24 George III c.28
[+] Further Details
English Privy Council Records: Report of law officers to EPC committee.* 30 Apr. 1784. (PC 1/16/12). Report of committee to EPC. 30 Apr. 1784. (PC 1/16/18). Privy Council Notes: Reported on 30 Apr. 1784 (p. 136), with other bills referred on 28 Apr. 1784, and engrossed on same date, 30 Apr. 1784. However, the order to engross seems to have been made at a separate meeting on the same date - 30 Apr. 1784, 'Monday night' (PC 2/129, p. 147). Subjects: [300] Law And Order - Law - Criminal law [634] Social Issues - Education And Knowledge - The written word (e.g. press, censorship) Committee in 1st House: Committee of the Whole House Committee in 2nd House: Committee of the Whole House Procedural Features: Division in 1st House; Printed Comments on Procedural Features: Printed: 8 Apr. 1784. Division: 10 Apr. 1784.