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c. 4), the Protection of Life and Property in Certain Parts of Ireland Act 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 25), and the Protection of Person and Property Act 1881 (44 & 45 Vict. c. 4). An Irish Coercion Bill was proposed by Sir Robert Peel on 15 May 1846 in order to calm the increasingly difficult situation in Ireland as a result of the ongoing famine ...
On 25 June the Duke of Wellington persuaded the House of Lords to pass it, and it became the Importation Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c. 22). On that same night Peel's Irish Coercion Bill was defeated in the Commons by 292 to 219 by "a combination of Whigs, Radicals, and Tory protectionists." [39] Peel subsequently resigned as Prime Minister. In his ...
An Act to alter, amend, and enlarge the Powers and Provisions of an Act passed in the First Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to enable the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Liverpool to open and widen certain Streets and Places, and otherwise to improve the same; and to enable the said Mayor, Aldermen ...
An Act for further continuing, until the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Powers given by an Act of the Forty sixth Year of His present Majesty, [e] for enabling the Commissioners acting in Execution of an Agreement made between the East India ...
The UK Parliament at Westminster passed further Land Acts for Northern Ireland after the Partition of Ireland, such as the Northern Ireland Land Act 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 34), the Northern Ireland Land Act 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5. c. 14) and the Northern Ireland Land Purchase (Winding Up) Act 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5. c. 21).
The 1881 act was introduced by William Ewart Gladstone. The Protection of Persons and Property (Ireland) Act 1881, [fn 1] (44 & 45 Vict. c. 4) also called the Coercion Act 1881 or the Crimes Act 1881, was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which allowed for internment without trial of those suspected of involvement in the Land War in Ireland. [5]
The tariff act of 1842 had a significant impact on railroad building. The duty of $17/ton of hammered bar iron and $25/ton of rolled bar iron raised costs by 50 to 80%. The Walker tariff of 1846 reduced the duty to 30% and set off a railroad building boom in the 1850s. [2]
The Wilmot Proviso was an unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War. [1] The conflict over the Wilmot Proviso was one of the major events leading to the American Civil War.