Dublin Parliament Debates on Tax Heads and Military Preferment
In the Dublin House the committee approved tax heads for new duties on brands spirits tea and salaries and pensions to repay 50 0001 advanced for public use and ordered transmission to Great Britain. A bill head to enable leases near St Stephen s Green was presented and debated. Lieutenant Denis King petitions for military preferment for quelling the Dublin riot of November 6 1713, and Sir Pierce Butler and Richard Butler seek leave to bring in a bill to limit Pierce Butler s estate after death and raise funds to cover arrears.