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| Bill Number | 1001 | Session | 1775 |
| Title |
For better regulating the elections of members to serve in parliament. |
| Heads of Bill Stages |
| Originating Body |
Commons |
| Leave or Order |
21 Nov 1775 | Leave or Order to |
Mr Robert French |
[0834] |
| Read & Committed |
22 Nov 1775 | Presented by |
Mr Robert French |
[0834] |
| Reported |
14 Dec 1775 | Reported by |
Mr French |
[0834] |
| Sent to Chief Governor |
14 Dec 1775 | |
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| Privy Council Stages |
| Decision of the Irish Privy Council |
Approved | |
| Received & Referred to Law Officers | 28 Dec 1775 | |
| Petition to English Privy Council |
– | |
| Decision of the English Privy Council |
Amended | |
| Engrossed |
11 Mar 1776 | |
| Returned Bill Stages |
| House Presented |
Commons | |
| Presented |
18 Mar 1776 | |
| Sent to Other House |
21 Mar 1775 | |
| Royal Assent |
25 Mar 1776 | |
| Statute Number |
15 & 16 George III c.16 |
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| Related Bills
1000 1003 |
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English Privy Council Records:
- Minute of EPC committee. 9 Mar. 1776. ‘Counsel heard on behalf of the petitioners against the bill, relative to the not admitting persons to vote for a rent charge of less than £20 per annum, nor as an inhabitant of a borough who shall not have resided there twelve months last past – Bill to pass with the several amendments proposed by the attorney and solicitor general, except as to ...’. (PC 1/15/81).
Privy Council Notes:
- 'Petition of Sir James Lawrence Cotter, baronet, Thomas Odell, John Patterson, William Kirby, George Duke and Blenner Hasset Steele on behalf of themselves and others being persons entitled to vote for members to serve in parliament' (PC 2/119, p. 312, 3 Feb. 1776).
Subject:
Committee:
Committee of the Whole House
Procedural Features: Division; Later Petition; Printed
Comments on Procedural Features:
Later petitions: 8 Dec. 1775.
Divisions: 14 Dec. (2) 1775.
Printed: 19 Mar. 1776. |
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