# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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II. *Character of the Keys by the Inhabitants.*

*Extract from the Complaints of the Inhabitants, presented to the
Commissioners of Inquiry, in the Month of October, 1791.*

[margin: Commis-
sioners' Re-
port, Appen-
dix, D.
No. 2.]

" *We conceive ourselves considerably aggrieved by various Acts, called
Acts of Tynwald, passed since the Revestment of this Island in His Ma-
jesty, affecting the Rights and Interests of your Memorialists, without
our having it in our power to state our objections to such Acts, which
became binding upon us before we knew the purport of them.*

" *That we do conceive the mode in which the House of Keys have
acted, in the passing of these Acts, to be singularly hard and op-
pressive; but whether we ought to be relieved from this uncommon
situation among His Majesty's Subjects, of being under the legislative
control of self-elected men, since the Revestment of the Island,
by the Keys, in future, being elected for seven years, by the suf-
frages of the Inhabitants of the Parishes and Towns in the Island;
or whether, by the means of all Insular Acts of Legislation being
directed to be printed, and affixed to the doors of every Parish
Church in the Isle, three months previous to their passing, we sub-
mit to His Majesty's Royal Will and Pleasure;* but one or other
we do humbly conceive to be absolutely requisite for relieving us from
that state of utter bondage, which leading men among the House of Keys
would otherwise impose upon us."

III. *The Commissioners' Opinion of the Keys, and of the
Grievances complained of by the Inhabitants.*

[margin: Commis-
sioners' Re-
port, p. 85.]

" *The Secrecy with which the Laws materially affecting the Inha-
bitants, were passed, furnished, no doubt, a just ground of complaint.*"