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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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On April 1, King gave royal assent in the House of Peers to bills regulating royal family marriages, punishing mutiny in the American army, funding the militia, reducing tea duties with drawbacks for Ireland and plantations, dissolving Viscount Ligonier's marriage, and other public, private, and divorce bills.
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The Bill for Regulating the future Marriages of the Royal Family
The Bill for Punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army in America.
The Bill for defraying the Charge of the Pay and Clothing of the Militia.
The Bill to discontinue the Inland Duty of one shilling per Pound on Single and Black Teas, and for allowing a Drawback on Teas Exported to Ireland and the Plantations.
The Bill to Dissolve the Marriage of Lord VISCOUNT LIGONIER, with his wife PENELOPE PITT, and to enable him to marry again.
And also to several other Public, Private, and Divorce Bills.
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April 1.
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royal assent given to multiple bills including those on royal marriages, army payment in america, militia funding, tea duties, and viscount ligonier's divorce.
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His Majesty went to the House of Peers and gave the Royal Assent to bills for regulating royal family marriages, punishing mutiny and desertion with better army payment in America, defraying militia pay and clothing, discontinuing inland tea duty with drawbacks for exports to Ireland and plantations, dissolving Lord Viscount Ligonier's marriage to Penelope Pitt, and several other public, private, and divorce bills.