" Victoria IL—Whereas we have thought fit, by and with
the advice of our Privy Council, to dissolve this present Parliament, which stands prorogued to Tha.rsday the tenth day of August next ; we do for that end publish this our roval proclamation, and do hereby dissolve the said Parliament accordingly; and the Lords Spiritual, and the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, and the Com- missioners for shires and burghs, of the House of Commons, are discharged from their meeting and attendance on the said Thursday the tenth day of August next ; and we, being derirous and resolved, as soon as may be, to meet our people, and to have their advice is Parliament, do hereby,make known to all our loving subjects our royal will and pleasure to call a new Parliament : and do hereby further declare that, With the advice of our Privy Council, we have given order that our Chancellor of that part of our United Kingdom called Great Britain, and our Chancellor of Ireland, do respectively, upon notice thereof, forthwith issue out writs in due form, and according to law, for calling a new Parliament : and we do hereby also, by this our Royal proclamation under 'our Great Seal of our United Kingdom, require writs forthwith to be issued accordingly by our said Chancellors respectively, for causing the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons, who are to serve in the said Parliament, to be duly returned to, and give their attendance in our said Parliament ; which writs are to be returnable on Monday the I lth day of September next. "Given at our Court at Buckingham l'alace, this 17th day of July 1837, and
in the first year of our reign. " God save the Queen."
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