the text of the proclamation given by bennion's 'modern royal assent procedure at westminster' suggests that under the royal assent act the identity of the act s thereby assented to is ascertained only by the short title s in the schedule and not by the queen's sign manual on a print of any of them ' her majesty does not have before her the texts or even the long titles of the bills to which she signifies assent indeed these are not even communicated to officials of the queen's household ' normally only two oficial copies of the act are pepared on vellum one for the records of the house of lord and one for the pro according to essentials of the english legal system by john wheeler