HL Deb 07 August 1840 vol 55 c1378

Bills. Received the Royal assent:—Sugar (Excise Duties); Church Discipline; Church Building; Clergy Reserves (Canada); Marriages Act Amendment; Militia Pay; Militia Ballots Suspension; Metropolitan Police Courts; Chimney Sweepers; Bills of Exchange; Imprisonment for Debt; Metropolis Improvement (No. 1); Sale of Beer (No. 2); Notice of Elections; County Constabulary; Grammar Schools; Admiralty Court; Admiralty Court (Judge's, &c. Salary); Pilots; Isle of Man; Fisheries; Friendly Societies; East India Shipping; Insolvent Debtors (India); Slave Trade Treaties; Slave Trade (Venezuela); New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land; Law of Evidence (Scotland); Oyster Fisheries (Scotland); Bank of Ireland; Attorneys and Solicitors (Ireland); Poddle River (Dublin).—Read a third time:—Railways; Insolvent Debtors (Ireland); Imprisonment for Debt (Ireland).

Petitions presented. By the Marquess of Westminster, and Lord Portman, from St. Pancras, St. James's, and St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, for the adoption of measures for the better Supply of Water to the Metropolis.—By the Bishop of Exeter, from Coleraine, and other places in Ireland, against any further Grant to Maynooth College.—By Viscount Duncannon, from the British Medical Society, to specify in the ensuing Population Returns the number of Sick and Infirm in each District.—By Lord Brougham, from Prisoners confined Debt for in the Queen's Bench Prison, to Amend the Law for the Relief of Debtors; and from the Anti-Slavery Society of Birmingham, to put down the Foreign Slave Trade.