Lords Sitting of 16 July 1847

MINUTES.
PUBLIC BILLS.—2a Highway Rates; New Zealand (No. 2); Canal Companies; Destitute Persons (Ireland, No. 3); Militia Pay; Copyright (Colonies); Public Works and Drainage (Ireland); Constabulary Force (Ireland); London Bridge Approaches.
Reported.—Mussel Fisheries (Scotland); Post Office; Navigation (No. 2); Recovery of Public Monies (Ireland).
3a and passed:—Copyhold Commission; Holyhead, Harbour; Compensation for Damages (Ireland); Drainage of Lands (Ireland); Stock in Trade (Exemption); Joint Stock Companies; Polling at Elections (Ireland).
PETITIONS PRESENTED. From Southampton, for Alteration and Amendment of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency
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Act.—From William Morton, a Prisoner in the Queens Bench, for Alleged Contempt of the Court of Chancery, for Relief.—By Lord Brougham, from Robert Owen, for the Appointment of a Committee to Investigate his Plans for Ameliorating the Social Condition of Mankind.—From Rathbarren, Sligo, for the Adoption of a more Extended System of Colonisation for the Relief of the Present Distress in Ireland.—From Plymouth, and other places, for the Enactment of Sanitary Measures.