An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain Duties of Stamps, and to amend the Laws relating to the Stamp Duties.
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 humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen's most...