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PROCEEDINGSOFTHE COMMISSIONERS

At a board, holden at the House of the Right Honourable The Speaker of The House of Commons, on Friday the 25th Day of March 1808;

PRESENT,

The Right Hon. Charles Abbot, Speaker of the House of Commons;
The Right Hon. Sir William Grant, Master of The Rolls;
The Right Hon. Archibald Colquhoun, Lord Advocate of Scotland;
The Right Hon. Lord Frederick Campbell;
The Right Hon. John Baron Redesdale;
The Right Hon. Sylvester Baron Glenbervie;
The Right Rev. John Lord Bishop of Bangor;
The Right Hon. Charles Bathurst.

Materials for the First Volume of an authentic Collection of the Statutes of the Realm, prepared by Messrs. Luders, Tomlins, France, and Taunton, Sub-Commissioners, having been laid before The Commissioners; containing The Statutes made in the Reigns of Henry III. and Edward I. II. and III. preceded by The Charters of the Liberties of England granted by Henry I. Stephen, Henry II, John, Henry III.; and Edward I. together with several engraved Specimens of Charters, Statutes, and other Records; and it appearing to this Board that the printing of the same for Distribution may now be proceeded upon;

Ordered—That the said Materials be delivered by the Secretary to Mr. Tomlins and Mr.Taunton; and that Five Hundred Copies of the said Volume be printed from the said Materials, under their Inspection, with all such Dispatch as may be consistent with the accurate Execution of the Work.

At a board, holden at the House of the Right Honourable The Speaker of The House of Commons, on Monday the 25th Day of March 1811;

PRESENT,

The Right Hon. Charles Abbot, Speaker of the House of Commons;
The Right Hon. Sir William Grant, Master of the Rolls;
The Right Hon. Lord Frederick Campbell;
The Right Hon. John Baron Redesdale;
The Right Hon. Sylvester Baron Glenbervie;
The Right Rev. John Lord Bishop of London;
The Right Hon. Charles Bathurst.

A Printed Copy of the First Volume of the Authentic Collection of The Statutes of the Realm having been this Day produced to the Board;

Resolved—That there be laid before His Royal Highness the Prince Regent in Council, a Report of the Progress made in the said Work, together with a Printed Copy of the said Volume.

And a Report being now prepared accordingly, and agreed to by the Board, the same was signed by the several Commissioners present.

Extracted from the Minutes of the Board.

John Caley, Secretary.