HL Deb 10 August 1840 vol 55 c1398

Bills. Received the Royal assent:—Exchequer 81118(10,751,550l.); Ecclesiastical Courts (No. 1); Court of Chancery; Infant Felons; Population; Rating Stock in Trade (No. 2); Railways; Highway Rates; Commerce and Navigation; Postage Duties; Non-Parochial Registers; Municipal Corporations (Ireland); Municipal Districts (Ireland); Church Temporalities (Ireland); Imprisonment for Debt (Ireland); Insolvent Debtors (Ireland) Population (Ireland); Dublin Police; Linen, &c. Manufactures (Ireland); Court Houses (Ireland); Shrewsbury and Holyhead Roads.—Read a second time:—Coal Duties (London).— Read a third time:— Consolidated Fund.

Petitions presented. By Lord Portman, from Somersetshire, against the manner in which the Poor-Law provided Medical Attendance.—By the Duke of Wellington, from Lyme, and Charmouth, for Alteration of certain parts of the Poor-law Amendment Act.—By Lord Brougham, from Melksham, that the Polish Refugees in this country may be allowed to correspond with their Relatives through the medium of the British Ambassador.