An Act for granting to Her Majesty Duties on Succession to Property, and for altering certain Provisions of the Acts charging Duties on Legacies and Shares of Personal Estates. (The Succession Duty Act 1853)
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, towards raising the necessary Supplies for defraying Your Majesty's Public Expenses, and making permanent Addition to the Public Revenue, have freely and voluntarily resolved to grant unto Your Majesty the Duties herein-after mentioned and do most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted and be it enacted by the Queen's ...