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Bill Number	3740	Session	1787
Title	For the further increase and encouragement of shipping and navigation.
Initial Bill Stages
Originating Body		Commons
Leave or Order		16 Mar 1787	Leave or Order to	John Fitzgibbon Attorney General	[0749]
Presented		16 Mar 1787	Presented by	John Fitzgibbon Attorney General	[0749]
2nd Reading & Committed		20 Mar 1787
Reported		21 Mar 1787	Reported by	Mr Swan	[2032]
Sent to Other House		22 Mar 1787	2nd House Reporter	Charles Wilkinson Jones Viscount Ranelagh	[4050]
Sent to Chief Governor		2 Apr 1787
Privy Council Stages
Received & Referred to Law Officers		18 Apr 1787
Petition to English Privy Council		None
Decision of the English Privy Council		Approved
Engrossed		27 Apr 1787
Returned Bill Stages
Royal Assent		7 May 1787
Statute Number		27 George III c.23

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Privy Council Notes: Letter to attorney general: 'you and Mr Solicitor General in your report … will certify their lordships whether the regulations and restrictions contained in the said bill are similar to those contained in the act passed in the last session of parliament in this kingdom, entitled, an act for the further increase and encouragement of shipping and navigation' (PC 2/132, p. 154, 19 Apr. 1787). Committee minute (PC 2/132, p. 176, 27 Apr. 1787). Subject: [804] Communications - Water - Shipping Committee in 1st House: Committee of the Whole House Committee in 2nd House: Committee of the Whole House Procedural Features: Later Petition Comments on Procedural Features: Later petition: 16 Mar. 1787.