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Bill Number	2548	Session	1767
Title	For vesting the estate whereof the Right Honourable Edward, late earl of Drogheda, died seised in fee simple in trustees, to raise by sale of a competent part thereof money sufficient discharge his debts and legacies, and other encumbrances affecting the same.
Variant Title(s)	For vesting the estates of … Edward, late earl of Drogheda (which by his will are charged with the payment of said debts and legacies) in trustees, that so much thereof may be sold, as shall be sufficient for payment of the debts and legacies which affected the same.
Heads of Bill Stages
Originating Body		Lords
Leave or Order		18 Dec 1767	Leave or Order to	No member named	[7001]
Read & Committed		4 Feb 1768	Presented by	Arthur Hill (Hill-Trevor) Viscount Dungannon	[1015]
Reported		9 Mar 1768	Reported by	Arthur Hill (Hill-Trevor) Viscount Dungannon	[1015]
Sent to Chief Governor		9 Mar 1768
Privy Council Stages
Decision of the Irish Privy Council		Approved
Received & Referred to Law Officers		30 Mar 1768
Petition to English Privy Council		None
Decision of the English Privy Council		Approved
Engrossed		20 Apr 1768
Returned Bill Stages
House Presented		Lords
Presented		5 May 1768
Sent to Other House		10 May 1768
Royal Assent		27 May 1768
Statute Number		7 George III c.5 (private)
[+] Further Details
Subjects: [000] Personal - Wealth - Estates broadly defined, inc. settlements, specific leases, jointures [006] Personal - Wealth - Bankruptcy, debt of individual Committee: Select Committee Procedural Features: Division; Initiating Petition; Later Petition Comments on Procedural Features: Division: 9 Mar. 1768. Later petition: 6 May 1768.