Commons Sitting of 21 February 1838

Preamble
MINUTES.] Petitions presented. By Mr. INGHAM, from South Shields, for a repeal of the duty on Marine Insurances.—By Mr. LONG, from Devizes, and several other places, by Mr. ORD, from Newcastle, and other places, by Lord C. FITZROY, from Bury, and other places, by Mr. BAINES, from Kirby Stephen, and Biddeford, and by Sir R. PHILIPS, from a congregation of Baptist Dissenters, for the abolition of Negro Apprenticeship.—By Sir E. SUGDEN, from the Rate-payers, and other Inhabitants of forty townships in the county of York. and by Mr. HALL, from St. Pancras, against extending the New Poor-law to them.—By Lord G. LENNOX, from the proprietors of Salmon Fisheries on the Dee and Don, against the Salmon Fisheries Bill.—By Mr. WAKLEY, from Medical Practitioners of Bradford (Yorkshire), for improvement in Medical Law; from owners of Tenements in Guisborough, against the Rating of Tenements Bill; and from a Meeting held in Finsbury, against coercing Canada.—By Mr. R. CURRIE, from the Northampton Working Men's Association, and by Mr. COLLIER, from Plymouth, for the repeal of the New Poor-law Amendment Act.—By Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, from the Vestry and Board of Guardians of the Union of Berry, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, complaining of aspersions thrown on the Guardians of that and other Unions in the third Report of the Poor-law Commissioners—By Mr. JENKINS, from Carpet and Rug Manufacturers, and by Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, from Fancy Paper Manufacturers, in favour of the Patterns and Inventions Bill.—By Mr. WAKLEY, from the Brighton Registration and Patriotic Association, against the Rating of Tenements Bill.—By Mr. HALL, from Marylebone, for Universal Suffrage, and Vote by Ballot.