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Bill Number	3028	Session	1703
Title	For continuing the additional duty of excise on beer, ale and other liquors and for granting an additional duty on tobacco and several other goods and merchandises and also a tax of four shillings in the pound on several pensions and grants therein mentioned and for building of barracks in the city of Dublin.
Heads of Bill Stages
Originating Body		Commons
Leave or Order		10 Nov 1703	Leave or Order to	Mr Ludlow	[1281]
Read & Committed		17 Nov 1703	Presented by	Mr Ludlow	[1281]
Reported		23 Nov 1703	Reported by	Mr Ludlow	[1281]
Sent to Chief Governor		23 Nov 1703
Privy Council Stages
Decision of the Irish Privy Council		Approved
Received & Referred to Law Officers		17 Dec 1703
Petition to English Privy Council		–
Decision of the English Privy Council		Amended
Engrossed		7 Jan 1704
Returned Bill Stages
House Presented		Commons
Presented		14 Feb 1704
Sent to Other House		25 Feb 1704
Royal Assent		4 Mar 1704
Statute Number		2 Anne c.4
[+] Further Details
Privy Council Notes: 17 Dec. 1703: ‘petition of David, earl of Portmore, and Katherine, countess of Dorchester, his wife, humbly praying to be relieved against a tax of four shillings in the pound for two years which, as the petitioners are informed, the parliament in Ireland have laid on the pension of the said countess, of five thousand pounds per annum by amendment of the bill now transmitted from thence’ . Though the bill is not named in this petition, the amendments made on 7 Jan. make it clear that the petition referred to this bill. Subject: [201] Finance - Public Finance - Customs and excise Committee: Committee of the Whole House