 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 660 páginas
...acts were passed at various times in subsequent reigns, and so late as 1824 resolutions were passed by a committee of the house of commons to inquire into the state of the law of the United and its consequences respecting artisans leaving kingdom and residing abroad,... | |
 | John Gill - 1876 - 328 páginas
...length action was taken by the legislature. Foremost in this work was Brougham. In 1816 he obtained a Committee of the House of Commons to inquire into the state of education. Somewhat later he was one of those who established the first infants' school, and in 1824... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1879 - 806 páginas
...illustrious fonmli-r of the" State of Georgia. As a member of Parliament, he procured the appointment of a committee of the House of Commons " to inquire into the state of jails in this kingdom." The investigation was taken np warmly and pushed with vigor. Corruptions, peculations,... | |
 | 1880 - 974 páginas
...gen. Ogletliorpe, the founder of the state of Georgia, then in parliament, procured the appointment of a committee of the house of commons " to inquire into the state of jails in this kingdom." The inquiry awakened general indignation at the shameful and cruel condition... | |
 | Luke Herbert - 1880 - 372 páginas
...(Concluded from p. 185.) WE close our abbreviated account of the minutes of evidence given before the Select Committee of the House of Commons to inquire into the state of the law regarding patents for inventions b'y the following additions : — •'•'• .': " .' Ma.... | |
 | Frederick Adolphus Philbrick, William Amos Scarborough Westoby - 1881 - 434 páginas
...report, as before mentioned, on 7th July, 1837, and on the 23rd November following Mr. Wallace moved for a Committee of the House of Commons — "To inquire into the present rates and modes of charging postage, with a view to such a reduction thereof as may be made... | |
 | William Thomas Stead - 1884 - 70 páginas
...23 : — SIR, — Early in the last session of Parliament Sir John Hay asked the Government to grant a Committee of the House of Commons to inquire into the state of the navy and its adequacy, to protect the interests of this country in the event of a sudden war with... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1886 - 480 páginas
...house of Buxton, and presented him with two handsome pieces of plate. On 22 March 1836 Buxton moved for a committee of the House of Commons to inquire into the working of the apprenticeship system. He spent much time and labour in his investigation of this question,... | |
 | 1890 - 986 páginas
...gen. Oylcthorpe, the founder of the state of Georgia, then in parliament, procured the appointment of a committee of the house of commons "to inquire into the state of jails in this kingdom." The inquiry awakened general indignation at the shameful and cruel condition... | |
 | Sir Henry Peto (bart.) - 1893 - 150 páginas
...of the past difficulties.' Shortly before Sir Morton resigned his seat in Parliament, when he asked for a committee of the House of Commons to inquire into the allegations made against him in connection with the issue of shares and debenture stocks of the London,... | |
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Winchelsea moved for the appointment of a select committee of the House of Commons "to inquire into the state of education of the lower orders of the metropolis... 
