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Bill Number	1671	Session	1705
Title	To prevent frauds and abuses in making up the manufactures in this kingdom, and to regulate shopkeepers, artificers and tradesmen in making and selling wares.
Heads of Bill Stages
Originating Body		Commons
Leave or Order		2 Mar 1705	Leave or Order to	Lieutenant General Erle	[0698]
Read & Committed		9 Mar 1705	Presented by	Lieutenant General Erle	[0698]
Reported		—
Sent to Chief Governor		—
Privy Council Stages
Decision of the Irish Privy Council		Rejected
Received & Referred to Law Officers		—
Petition to English Privy Council		–
Decision of the English Privy Council
Engrossed		—
Returned Bill Stages
House Presented
Presented		—
Sent to Other House		—
Royal Assent		—
Statute Number
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Privy Council Notes: These heads were, according to HC journal, ordered on 22 Mar. to be reported on 23 Mar.; but parliament was adjourned on 22 Mar. The Quaker minute-book makes it clear that this was nonetheless taken to the council and laid aside there. [22 Mar. 1705: ‘the manufactory bill was read in the house today, and ordered to be read again tomorrow, but afterwards the house adjourned as before mentioned cannot now be so read as was intended’. 26 Mar. 1705: ‘the bill for regulating manufactures etc. being laid before the council board last 7th day night [24 Mar.], Amos Strettell got a view of it and found it would affect friends, and having formerly been ordered to get a copy of it’. 3 Apr. 1705: ‘the bill about manufactures is ordered to be laid aside’. (Friends Historical Library, Dublin. YM N1, ff 30r, 37v, 42r). Subjects: [752] Economy - Internal Trade - Weights, measures, standards, frauds [755] Economy - Internal Trade - Retailers . shops, markets and fairs, hawkers Committee: Committee of the Whole House Procedural Features: Later Petition Comments on Procedural Features: Later petition: 22 Mar. 1705.