THE

Parliamentary Register;

OR

HISTORY

OF THE

PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES

OF THE

HOUSE OF COMMONS;

CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF

The most interesting SPEECHES and MOTIONS; accurate
Copies of the most remarkable LETTERS and PAPERS ;
of the most material EVIDENCE, PETITIONS, &c.
laid before and offered to the HOUSE,

DURING THE

THIRD SESSION of the FIFTEENTH PARLIAMENT

Printed for J. DEBRETT, (Succeffor to Mr. ALMON) oppofite
BURLINGTON-HOUSE, PICCADILLY.

M.DCC.LXXXIII.

CONTENTS

OF VOLUME X.

HOUSE of COMMON S.

TH

HE Lords fent down the, amendment made by them in the bill carried up by the Commons, for opening the intercourfe with America, by repealing fuch laws as impofed a neceffity that fhips coming to this country from America, fhould be furnifhed with certificates and other documents. In that bill there was a claufe which gave to the King and Council a power of making whatever regulations they should deem neceffary; but the duration of this power was limited to fix weeks. The amendment made by their Lordships was, an extenfion of the duration of this power to the 27th of December, from the day the bill fhould pafs into a law.

The Speaker obferved to the Houfe, that as the bill empowered the Crown to impofe duties, it was, ftriatly fpeak ing, a Money bill, and therefore the Houfe could not, con fiftent with its own orders, fuffer the Lords to make any amendment in it. In order to prove it clearly to be a Money bill, he read a written opinion of one of his predeceffors in that chair (the late Speaker Onflow), from which it appear? ed that the extenfion of the powers of a Money bill, by the Lords, was contrary to the exclufive privilege of the ComVOL. X.

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mons,