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Bill Number	1708	Session	1705
Title	For the improvement of the hempen and flaxen manufactures of this kingdom.
Heads of Bill Stages
Originating Body		Commons
Leave or Order		16 Feb 1705	Leave or Order to	Mr Maxwell	[1373]
Read & Committed		1 Mar 1705	Presented by	Sir Thomas Southwell	[1968]
Reported		14 Mar 1705	Reported by	Sir Thomas Southwell	[1968]
Sent to Chief Governor		14 Mar 1705
Privy Council Stages
Decision of the Irish Privy Council		Approved
Received & Referred to Law Officers		31 May 1705
Petition to English Privy Council		–
Decision of the English Privy Council		Amended
Engrossed		31 May 1705
Returned Bill Stages
House Presented		Commons
Presented		9 Jun 1705
Sent to Other House		14 Jun 1705
Royal Assent		16 Jun 1705
Statute Number		4 Anne c.4
[+] Further Details
Privy Council Notes: This bill was first transmitted by the IPC on 29 March 1705. First referred by the EPC on 5 April. First engrossed by the EPC on 26 April, with amendments. When returned to Dublin, the Irish government did not lay it before parliament but, because of a 'mistake' made in England transmitted it again to London 25 May (SP 63/365, f. 274); it was presented to the EPC on 31 May and approved at the same meeting. The date of the second appearance at the EPC has been used here, since this was the version of the bill subsequently enacted. A 'petition of John Podmore, clerk of the crown and peace for the province of Leinster in Ireland praying to be heard against a bill transmitted from that kingdom relating to the fees of his said office' (25 Apr. 1705, PC 2/80, pp 330-1) may refer to this bill, though it is possible that it refers to 'To prevent fees where bills are returned ignored'. Subject: [741] Economy - Other Manufactures - Other textiles Committee: Committee of the Whole House Procedural Features: Later Petition Comments on Procedural Features: Later petition (actually 'memorial' of convocation): 12 Mar.; see also 16, 19 Mar. 1705.