Sitting of 14 April 1808

MINUTES.
Two new writs were ordered to be issued, one for the borough of St. Mawes, in the room of Scrope Barnard, esq. who has accepted of the office of steward of the Chiltern hundreds; the other for the borough of Wareham, in the room of sir G. T. Calcraft, who has accepted his majesty's hundreds of East Hendred.—Mr. Graham presented a petition from the South London water works company against the Vauxhall bridge bill, which was ordered to lie upon the table.

LOCAL MILITIA BILL.
Sir J. C. Hippisleybegged to put a question to the chancellor of the exchequer, in the absence of a noble viscount who had brought in this bill; which was, Whether any exception was to be made in favour of those balloted men, who had relied on the faith of parliament for not being again called upon till the lists of their respective parishes were exhausted? For such was the construction of the law: and gentlemen, like himself, who had acted in carrying into effect the provisions of the late Militia Transfer bill, had witnessed the anxiety

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expressed by such persons as stood in this situation.
The Chancellor of the Exchequercould not resolve the question, from his recollection of the provisions of the bill.
Sir J. C. Hippisleyobserved, that, he put the question, not merely from knowing how interesting the result must be to those who stood in this predicament, but also in compliance with a requisition which had been made to him.—Adjourned till Tuesday the 26th instant.