"These are to request and require in the name of the Viceroy and Governor-General of India all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance, and to afford him every assistance and protection of which he or she may stand in need.
22.
:: " The Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, requests all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer, an Australian Citizen, to pass freely without let or hindrance and to afford him or her every assistance and protection of which he or she may stand in need ."
23.
Whereas UK-issued passports state that " " Her Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State requests and requires in the name of Her Majesty the Queen to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance " ", Gibraltar-issued passports state that it is " the Governor of Gibraltar " who requests and requires this.
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{{ cquote | " Ministry of Interior, Government of Pakistan requires & requests in the name of President of Islamic Republic of Pakistan all those to whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance and to afford the bearer such assistance and protection as may be necessary ."
25.
:: " These are to request and require in the name of the President of the Republic of Ghana all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance and to afford him or her every assistance and protection of which he or she may stand in need ."
26.
{{ cquote | " These are to request and require in the Name of the President of the Republic of India all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance, and to afford him or her, every assistance and protection of which he or she may stand in need ."
27.
The exact wording on the document is, " Her Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealdh ` Iffairs requests and requires in the name of Her Majesty all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance and to afford the bearer such assistance and protection as may be necessary ."
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Often, one sense is more obscure or archaic, increasing the danger of misinterpretation when it does occur; for instance, the King James Bible often uses " let " in the sense of " forbid ", a meaning which is now obsolete, except in the legal phrase " without let or hindrance " and in ball games such as squash, table tennis, and racquetball.
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:Her Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State Requests and requires in the Name of Her Majesty all those who it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance and to afford the bearer such assistance and protection as may be necessary . smacks of Pax Britannica and Palmerston's willingness to send a gunboat to protect any British subject threatened by'Johnny Foreigner '.
