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Bill Number	0405	Session	1703
Title	For erecting a workhouse in the city of Dublin for employing and maintaining the poor thereof.
Variant Title(s)	To employ and maintain the poor in the county and county of the city of Dublin. [2 Oct.]
Heads of Bill Stages
Originating Body		Commons
Leave or Order		2 Oct 1703	Leave or Order to	Colonel Cunningham	[0463]
Read & Committed		21 Oct 1703	Presented by	John Forster Recorder	[0785]
Reported		13 Nov 1703	Reported by	Robert Rochfort Attorney General	[1806]
Sent to Chief Governor		13 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		None
Decision of the English Privy Council		Amended
Engrossed		23 Dec 1703
Returned Bill Stages
House Presented		Commons
Presented		14 Feb 1704
Sent to Other House		29 Feb 1704
Royal Assent		4 Mar 1704
Statute Number		2 Anne c.19
[+] Further Details
Extant Copies: Brodrick Papers, 1248/9/84-85. Subject: [622] Social Issues - Poor Law And Poverty - Workhouses, bridewells, idleness, putting to work Committee: Committee of the Whole House