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Bill Number1761Session1787
Title To extend the powers given by law to certain persons of making leases of lands for the purposes of building and carrying on of the linen manufacture.
Initial Bill Stages
Originating Body Commons
Leave or Order 8 Feb 1787Leave or Order to Honourable Mr Knox [1188]
Presented 28 Feb 1787Presented by Honourable Mr Knox [1188]
2nd Reading & Committed 2 Mar 1787   
Reported 5 Mar 1787Reported by Sir Henry Hartstonge [0981]
Sent to Other House 6 Mar 17872nd House Reporter Charles Wilkinson Jones Viscount Ranelagh [4050]
Sent to Chief Governor 15 Mar 1787   
Privy Council Stages
Received & Referred to Law Officers22 Mar 1787 
Petition to English Privy Council None 
Decision of the English Privy Council Approved 
Engrossed 4 Apr 1787 
Returned Bill Stages
Royal Assent 30 Apr 1787 
Statute Number 27 George III c.20
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