An Act for raising the Sum of Sixteen Millions by way of Annuities.
Most Gracious Sovereign, WE, Your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, being desirous to raise the necessary Supplies which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this Session of Parliament, have resolved, That the Sum of Sixteen Millions be raised by Annuities in manner herein-after mentioned, and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the ...