# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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May it please Your Lordships

Your Lordships having been pleased to transmit to
Us, by M^r Whately's Letter of the 12^th Instant, a Copy of one
from M^r Stephens Secretary to the Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty, inclosing the Copy of a Letter from
Lieutenant Mathews, of the Lurcher Cutter, in Douglas
Pier, in the Isle of Man, in relation to a Vessel which
he had Information, had a Quantity of Tea on board,
which was intended to be Landed there, together with
Copy of a Letter from the Governor of that Island, on
this occasion, and to direct Us to give Lieutenant
Mathews, the necessary Instructions upon the Points
he desires, with the utmost Dispatch —

We beg leave to observe to Your Lordships, that
in Consequence of the Opinion of His Majesty's Attorney
and Solicitor General, dated the 18^th July last, with
respect to the Powers, persons acting under our authority,
have to make Seizures on board any Vessel, in the Ports
of the Isle of Man; some Instructions were prepared for
the Conduct of such Officers, and were transmitted to
M^r Jenkinson, by our Secretary's Letter of the 27^th of
September last, to be laid before Your Lordships; but
~~xxx~~ a doubt having arose thereon, with respect to any
Goods which were not Prohibited, to be imported into
the said Island, and which might be found on board
any Vessels liable to Seizure, a further Question was —

laid