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Bill Number	1531	Session	1707
Title	For the amendment of the law, and the better advancement of justice.
Variant Title(s)	For mending the law as it is in England. [19 July]
Heads of Bill Stages
Originating Body		Lords
Leave or Order		19 Jul 1707	Leave or Order to	St George Ashe Bishop of Clogher	[3013]
Read & Committed		29 Jul 1707	Presented by	No member named	[7004]
Reported		9 Aug 1707	Reported by	St George Ashe Bishop of Clogher	[3013]
Sent to Chief Governor		9 Aug 1707
Privy Council Stages
Decision of the Irish Privy Council		Approved
Received & Referred to Law Officers		1 Sep 1707
Petition to English Privy Council		None
Decision of the English Privy Council		Amended
Engrossed		8 Sep 1707
Returned Bill Stages
House Presented		Commons
Presented		7 Oct 1707
Sent to Other House		27 Oct 1707
Royal Assent		30 Oct 1707
Statute Number		6 Anne c.10
[+] Further Details
Extant Copies: B.L., Add. MS 61633, f. 190. George Dodington to [Sunderland], 14 Aug. 1707. Parliament adjourned. Sends list of bills which have passed both houses and will soon be sent to England. Recommends public bills, 'believing them to be consistent with the dependence of this kingdom on the crown of Great Britain. And if in anything they differ from the laws and customs of England, it is in cases that require a peculiar remedy and proper for the circumstances of this country...'. B.L., Add. MS 61633, f. 191. List of bills passed the house of commons and house of lords in 1707 session. This bill is the last, unnumbered, item in the list. B.L., Add. MS 61633, ff 210-11. Dodington to Sunderland, 18 Oct. 1707. Subjects: Committee: Select Committee Procedural Features: Read and Committed on Different Days; Conference Comments on Procedural Features: References to conference in HC and HL Journals from 13 to 30 Oct. 1707.