# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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Sect 53 Lorentosh [?] Exemption to be purchased
by Government 23500£

ANNO REGNI
GEORGII III.
REGIS
Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ,
VICESIMO QUARTO.

At the Parliament begun and holden at *Weſtminſter*, the
Eighteenth Day of *May*, *Anno Domini* 1784, in the Twenty-
fourth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE
the Third, by the Grace of God, of *Great Britain*, *France*,
and *Ireland*, King, Defender of the Faith, *&c*.

Being the Firſt Seſſion of the Sixteenth Parliament of *Great Britain*.

[Royal coat of arms with motto HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE and DIEU ET MON DROIT]

Ru
LONDON,
Printed by CHARLES EYRE and WILLIAM STRAHAN,
Printers to the King's moſt Excellent Majeſty. 1784.

MS 09707/8/28

AP 151 - 21