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Bill Number0840Session1788
Title For the relief of insolvent debtors with respect to the imprisonment of their persons.
Initial Bill Stages
Originating Body Commons
Leave or Order 12 Feb 1788Leave or Order to Mr Holmes [1033]
Presented 16 Feb 1788Presented by Mr Holmes [1033]
2nd Reading & Committed 25 Feb 1788   
Reported 5 Mar 1788Reported by Honourable Mr Serjeant Hewitt [1012]
Sent to Other House 8 Mar 17882nd House Reporter Charles Wilkinson Jones Viscount Ranelagh [4050]
Sent to Chief Governor 29 Mar 1788   
Privy Council Stages
Received & Referred to Law Officers5 Apr 1788 
Petition to English Privy Council None 
Decision of the English Privy Council Approved 
Engrossed 11 Apr 1788 
Returned Bill Stages
Royal Assent 18 Apr 1788 
Statute Number 28 George III c.46
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