HL Deb 06 April 1837 vol 37 c797

Petitions presented. By Lords ELLENBOROUGH, RAVENSWORTH, KENYON, STRANGFORD, the Bishops of ST. DAVID, HEREFORD, the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, the Earls HOWE, HARROWBY, the Marquess of DOWN-SHIRE, and the Duke of WELLINGTON, from a great number of places, against the Abolition of Church-rates—By Lord BROUGHAM, from Dunbarton, for the Abolition of Church-rates; and from various other places, for the same Object.—By Earl GREY, from Northumberland, that the Management of the County-rates may be placed under the efficient control of the Rate-payers; and from Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the Insertion of a Provision to alter the Clause which prevents them from transferring certain Debts of the Corporation—By the Earl of RODHN, from Elphin and Clough, for a Revision of the National System of Education (Ireland).

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