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            <text>&lt;div style="text-align:right;"&gt;(Sgd.) &lt;em&gt;Appd ER&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Lord Chancellor, with his humble duty to Your Majesty, submits for Your Majesty's signature, if you shall so please, a Commission for giving the Royal Approbation and Confirmation of the choice of the Right Honourable Bernard Weatherill to be Speaker of the House of Commons, in the room of the Right Honourable George Thomas.
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;(Sgd.)&lt;em&gt; Hailsham of St. Marylebone,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;House of Lords&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;15th&lt;/em&gt; June, 1983</text>
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