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&lt;p style="text-align:right;"&gt;(Sgd.) &lt;em&gt;Charles R&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;    CHARLES THE THIRD by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Our other Realms and Territories KING Head of the Commonwealth Defender of the Faith&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:right;"&gt;Greeting!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;    WHEREAS Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Second did Ordain that the status of a City shall be conferred on the Borough of Doncaster and the Borough of Douglas in Our Island of Man in celebration of Her Platinum Jubilee;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;    AND WHEREAS We are given to understand that there are Warrants under the Sign Manual of Her Late Majesty to cause Letters Patent to be made under the Great Seal of the Realm conferring the status of a City on the said Borough of Doncaster and on the said Borough of Douglas directed to the Lord Chancellor, which Letters Patent are already engrossed for the Great Seal and not as yet passed under that Seal;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:left;font-size:smaller;"&gt;WARRANT granting approval for the Letters Patents for the City Status of Doncaster and Douglas in the Island of Man to be passed under the Great Seal&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="page-number" style="text-align:left;"&gt;Page 2&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;    AND WHEREAS it is Our desire to bring Her Late Majesty's instructions into effect;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;    NOW THEREFORE KNOW YE that We do hereby give you Our said Lord Chancellor full power and authority to pass the said Letters Patent under the Great Seal each to bear date of the seventh day of September in the Seventy-First Year of Her Late Majesty’s Reign AND We do Ordain and Declare that the said conferral of the Status of a City on the said Borough of Doncaster and the said Borough of Douglas shall come into effect on the first day of November in the first year of Our Reign.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:right;"&gt;GIVEN at Our Court at Saint James’s&lt;br /&gt;the &lt;em&gt;31st&lt;/em&gt; day of &lt;em&gt;October&lt;/em&gt; 2022&lt;br /&gt;in the first Year of Our Reign&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align:right;"&gt;(Sgd.) &lt;em&gt;Dominic Raab&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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