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Bill Number	2278	Session	1789
Title	To disable any person from being chosen a member of or sitting or voting in the house of commons, who has any pension during pleasure or for any number of years, or holds any office or place of profit created after a certain time under the crown, and to limit the amount of pensions.
Initial Bill Stages
Originating Body		Commons
Leave or Order		4 Mar 1789	Leave or Order to	Mr Forbes	[0778]
Presented		7 Mar 1789	Presented by	Mr Forbes	[0778]
2nd Reading & Committed		9 Mar 1789
Reported		12 Mar 1789	Reported by	Mr Forbes	[0778]
Sent to Other House		18 Mar 1789
Sent to Chief Governor		—
Privy Council Stages
Received & Referred to Law Officers		—
Petition to English Privy Council		None
Decision of the English Privy Council
Engrossed		—
Returned Bill Stages
Royal Assent		—
Statute Number
[+] Further Details
Subjects: [110] Government - Legislature - Parliamentary elections [119] Government - Legislature - Miscellaneous Committee in 1st House: Committee of the Whole House Committee in 2nd House: Procedural Features: Division in 1st House; Protest; Printed Comments on Procedural Features: Divisions: 9, 30 Mar. 1789. Protest: 30 Mar. 1789. Printed: 18 Mar. 1789.