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Parliamentary Proceedings.
bill should preclude the possibility of the faculty obtaining subjects for dissection . Leave was granted to bring in the bill . The report of the committee upon the Militia Officers Bill was brought up , and the resolutions agreed to . The Attorney General moved for leave to bring in a Bill for continuing a bill of the 33 d of his present Majesty , commonly called the Alien Bill . Leave was ht and read first time
given , the bill was brougup , a . The bill for granting a duly to his Majesty on certificates for using hairpowder was brought up and read a first time . The hill stated , that all those who were in the habit of wearing hair-powder should enter their names with the clerk ofthe peace ofthe counties , or the commissioners ofthe districts in which they resided , Sec . The Bigamy Bill was read a third time , and passed . 18 . Mr . Secretary at Warin a committee of Ways and MeansmovedThat
, , , the additional pay to be allowed to militia subaltern officers in time of peace be defrayed out of the land-tax , which was agreed to . 19 . Mr . llohart reported from the committee appointed to try the rights of the Westminster Election petition , that the right lay in housekeepers paying scot and lot ; and that the Duchy of Lancaster , St . Martin ' s le Grand , and the precincts ofthe Savoy , were uiclutted in the city and liberties of Westminster .
Mr . llobarl having brought up the report of the committee of Ways and Means , and the . resolution being read , that the allowance to be granted to subaltern officers ofthe militia in time of peace , bedefrayed out ofthe produce from the faneftax for the year 1795 , Mr . Windham ( Secretary at War ) said , it was by no means his intention to trouble the House with any observations on the measure now proposed , the propriety and necessity of which were sufficiently notorious , unless he had been given , to understand that gentlemen on Ihe opposite side meant to oppose it . Not being able to guess at the particular objections they intended to
state , he could not pretend precisely or directly to obviate Ihem . In the . present stage of the business therefore he thought it sufficient to observe , that his proposition was seconded and approved by the highest authority on this subject , ihe colonels of the militia , from whom it was natural to expect the best information ; and he was moreover authorised to bring it forward by the general acknowledged deficiency of subalterns in the militia corps , a description of men on whom the country had much to depend in its present awful situalion , and whom it was its obvious interest to encourage and recompence . He therefore movedthat this
, resolution be agreed to . Mr . Bastard , Colonel Sloane , Colonel Upfon , Mr . Pitt , Mr . Stanley , and Mr . York , supported the proposition . General Tarleton , Mr . Fox , Mr . M . Robinson , and Mr . Sheridan , opposed it on constitutional grounds ; as assimilating the militia with the army . After some conversation the resolution was agreed to , and the Secretary at War moved for leave to bring in a bill pursuant to the said resolution .
20 . On the question being put for the commitment of the Franking Bill , several members delivered their opinions . Upon the clause for limiting the number of letters to be sent or received free by members . Mr . Long moved to fill up the blank with the number of fifteen . Mr . Burton proposed the number ten , as an amendment . After some conversation in support of each number , the House divided , when the oriinal number was adopted . Ayes 34 Noes 31
g , . Upon the clause restricting the privilege of franking by clerks in public offices , it being agreed that great abuses existed in the exercise of it , it was suggesteci , that a committee should be instituted to investigate them .. Mr . Pitt moved , that the clause be left out in this bill , in order that the remedy should be applied by itself . Mr . Ctmtborne moved , that the committee adjpurn , and report progress .
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Parliamentary Proceedings.
bill should preclude the possibility of the faculty obtaining subjects for dissection . Leave was granted to bring in the bill . The report of the committee upon the Militia Officers Bill was brought up , and the resolutions agreed to . The Attorney General moved for leave to bring in a Bill for continuing a bill of the 33 d of his present Majesty , commonly called the Alien Bill . Leave was ht and read first time
given , the bill was brougup , a . The bill for granting a duly to his Majesty on certificates for using hairpowder was brought up and read a first time . The hill stated , that all those who were in the habit of wearing hair-powder should enter their names with the clerk ofthe peace ofthe counties , or the commissioners ofthe districts in which they resided , Sec . The Bigamy Bill was read a third time , and passed . 18 . Mr . Secretary at Warin a committee of Ways and MeansmovedThat
, , , the additional pay to be allowed to militia subaltern officers in time of peace be defrayed out of the land-tax , which was agreed to . 19 . Mr . llohart reported from the committee appointed to try the rights of the Westminster Election petition , that the right lay in housekeepers paying scot and lot ; and that the Duchy of Lancaster , St . Martin ' s le Grand , and the precincts ofthe Savoy , were uiclutted in the city and liberties of Westminster .
Mr . llobarl having brought up the report of the committee of Ways and Means , and the . resolution being read , that the allowance to be granted to subaltern officers ofthe militia in time of peace , bedefrayed out ofthe produce from the faneftax for the year 1795 , Mr . Windham ( Secretary at War ) said , it was by no means his intention to trouble the House with any observations on the measure now proposed , the propriety and necessity of which were sufficiently notorious , unless he had been given , to understand that gentlemen on Ihe opposite side meant to oppose it . Not being able to guess at the particular objections they intended to
state , he could not pretend precisely or directly to obviate Ihem . In the . present stage of the business therefore he thought it sufficient to observe , that his proposition was seconded and approved by the highest authority on this subject , ihe colonels of the militia , from whom it was natural to expect the best information ; and he was moreover authorised to bring it forward by the general acknowledged deficiency of subalterns in the militia corps , a description of men on whom the country had much to depend in its present awful situalion , and whom it was its obvious interest to encourage and recompence . He therefore movedthat this
, resolution be agreed to . Mr . Bastard , Colonel Sloane , Colonel Upfon , Mr . Pitt , Mr . Stanley , and Mr . York , supported the proposition . General Tarleton , Mr . Fox , Mr . M . Robinson , and Mr . Sheridan , opposed it on constitutional grounds ; as assimilating the militia with the army . After some conversation the resolution was agreed to , and the Secretary at War moved for leave to bring in a bill pursuant to the said resolution .
20 . On the question being put for the commitment of the Franking Bill , several members delivered their opinions . Upon the clause for limiting the number of letters to be sent or received free by members . Mr . Long moved to fill up the blank with the number of fifteen . Mr . Burton proposed the number ten , as an amendment . After some conversation in support of each number , the House divided , when the oriinal number was adopted . Ayes 34 Noes 31
g , . Upon the clause restricting the privilege of franking by clerks in public offices , it being agreed that great abuses existed in the exercise of it , it was suggesteci , that a committee should be instituted to investigate them .. Mr . Pitt moved , that the clause be left out in this bill , in order that the remedy should be applied by itself . Mr . Ctmtborne moved , that the committee adjpurn , and report progress .