# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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To the Right Honorable the Lords Commifsioners of
His Majesty's Treasury.

The humble Petition and Memorial of
Meſs^rs John Taubman and John Stevenson
Inhabitants of the Isle of Mann.

Sheweth
That upon the Faith and Credit of the several Harbour
Acts and Statutes within the said Isle previous to the Year 1765
and in Virtue of an Order ifsued by the Legislative Body of
said Isle your Petitioner Taubman was induced to lend the
then Supervisors of said Harbours the Sum of Three hundred
Pounds manks Currency at Lawful Interest as by Bonds dated
respectively the 1^st. September 1763 and 26^th. May 1764
may appear — And in like manner your Petitioner Stevenson's
Wife previous to her intermarriage was prevailed on to lend the
Sum of Three [above line: hundred] Pounds British as by Bond dated the 12^th.
January 1764 may also appear.

That the said Loans and Sums were accordingly expended
and laid out in the Improvement and necefsary Repairs of
the said Harbours as by authentic Vouchers extant on the Public
Records of the said Isle doth more fully and clearly appear.

That upon a general Settlement of the said Harbour
Accounts before a Committee appointed by the Governor Council
and Keys the Legislature of the said Isle there appears (by
authentic Papers on the Public Records) due on your Petitioner
Taubmans Bonds for Principal and Interest the Sum of Three
hundred and ninety three Pounds seven Shillings and three pence
halfpenny and to your Petitioner Stevenson the Sum of ffour
hundred and eighty five Pounds twelve Shillings and six Pence —
manks Currency making in the whole due to both the Petitioners the
Sum of Seven hundred and fifty four Pounds five Shillings and
six pence halfpenny British.

That your Petitioners have repeatedly applied to Charles
Lutwidge Esquire His Majestys Receiver General and others the
Commifsioners of the Sea Ports and Harbours of the said Isle for
the Payment of their said Debts chargeable upon the Revenue

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