# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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his legal Property. Does it not? look at the
Bill, and look at the Charter; collate them.

The Parliamentary Charter gives him the
Territories of the Ports and the Seas, the Re-
venue, the Cuſtoms and the Duties, and Ad-
miralty, in and over the Iſland. The Bill
enters his Seas, his Coaſts, his Harbours,
his Rivers; and carries with it all the Offi-
cers of the Cuſtoms and Exciſe in England
and Ireland, to viſit, ſearch, and ſeize. At
one Stroke, it ingrafts the whole Code of pe-
nal Laws of Revenue upon the Iſle of Man.
Does not this invade his Right, and take away
his Property?

The Parliamentary Charter, when it gave
him Ports, Duties and Cuſtoms, gave him
Trade and Commerce. The Bill cuts off his
Communication not only with England, Ire-
land, and the Plantations, but with France,
Holland, and, as to many Articles, divides it
from the World. It puts it under the Ban of
Parliament, and the Interdiction of Commerce.
Does not this affect his Right and Property?

By the Charter he is clearly entitled to the
whole Admiralty Juriſdiction of the Iſland,
and its Dependencies; and the Determination
of inſular Seizures is as clearly within that
Juriſdiction.

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