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Being the SECOND SESSION in the

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HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Thursday, Feb. 8.

Two Petitions were prefented against the Watch and Clock Act. Ordered to be laid upon the Table.

Fozard's Divorce Bill was read a second time.

The Speaker acquainted the House, that, on the 23d of September laft, he had received a communication from the Governor of the Bank of England, of the intention of the Bank to pay in gold all fuch dollars as had been stamped at the Tower, which communication he had ordered to be inserted in the Lon- ' don Gazette. He had alfo, on the 31st of January laft, received a communication from the Bank, of their intention to pay in gold for fuch one and two pound notes as had been iffued before the Ift of February. This communication he had alfo ordered to be inferted in the Gazette; but he had thought proper to mention these two circumftances to the House, in order that they might be entered upon the Journals.

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The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved, "That the House fhould refolve itfelf into a Committee on Monday fe'nnight, in order to take into confideration the Reports that had been prefented from the Committee of Finance. Agreed to.

VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTION.

Mr. Manning gave notice, that fome day next week he fhould move, that there be laid before the House a lift of the perfons who had contributed to the Voluntary Subfcriptions. He deferred his Motion till next week, in order to give time to Gentlemen who were in the country to add their names to the refpectable lift of Noblemen and Gentlemen who had done themselves fo much honour by their contributions.

A new Writ was ordered to be iffued for the Shire of Clack

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SUPPLEMENTARY MILITIA.

Mr. Secretary Dundas faid, that the object of the motion which he was about to make was, to remove fome doubts that had arifen upon the acts refpecting the Supplementary Militia, which his Majefty was empowered to collect by ballot, train for twenty-one days, and then call out, either in whole or in part. Some explanations were deemed to be neceffary, and regulations for the purpofe of greater expedition. It was the intention of his Majefty to call out half the Supplementary Militia, inftead of a third, which it had been in his Majefty's original contemplation; and the reafon was, that ten thoufand men had been taken from the Supplementary, and added to the regular troops, which had reduced the former to fifty thoufand He did not mean to fay, that a larger proportion than

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