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Bill Number	3107	Session	1777
Title	For the improvement of his majesty's revenue, and the more effectual preventing frauds therein, and for continuing and amending several laws heretofore made and now in force relative to his majesty's revenue.
Heads of Bill Stages
Originating Body		Commons
Leave or Order		10 Feb 1778	Leave or Order to	Mr Serjeant Copinger	[0491]
Read & Committed		9 Mar 1778	Presented by	Mr Serjeant Coppinger	[0491]
Reported		25 Mar 1778	Reported by	Mr Copinger	[0491]
Sent to Chief Governor		25 Mar 1778
Privy Council Stages
Decision of the Irish Privy Council		Approved
Received & Referred to Law Officers		13 Apr 1778
Petition to English Privy Council		–
Decision of the English Privy Council		Amended
Engrossed		13 May 1778
Returned Bill Stages
House Presented		Commons
Presented		22 May 1778
Sent to Other House		26 May 1778
Royal Assent		11 Jun 1778
Statute Number		17 & 18 George III c.8
[+] Further Details
English Privy Council Records: Petition of several merchants of the city of Norwich and county of Norfolk against the heads of the bill transmitted from Ireland for the improvement of the revenue. n.d. Received 15 Apr. 1778. (PC 1/15/115). Report of law officers to EPC committee. 5 May 1778. (PC 1/15/117). Privy Council Notes: Petition of 'sundry merchants of the city of Norwich and county of Norfolk … concerned in the manufacturing and exportation of malt to Ireland' (PC 2/122, pp 39-40, 15 Apr. 1778). Title in EPC omits 'relative to his majesty's revenue'. Subjects: [202] Finance - Public Finance - Smuggling and fraud [209] Finance - Public Finance - Miscellaneous, inc. exchequer administration Committee: Committee of the Whole House Procedural Features: Division; Later Petition Comments on Procedural Features: Later petitions: 10, 11, 13 Mar. 1778. Division: 25 Mar. 1778.