# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
**Method:** Automated (Claude Batch API — claude-opus-4-6)

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Pounds British to be levied in the
Course of seven Years by Assessment
Upon all the Landed Property through
out the Island- Upon Houses in the
Towns above the Annual Value of
Forty Shillings upon Coaches and other
Travelling Carriages. Upon common
Brewers of Malt Liquor- upon
Retailers of Wines and Spirituous
Liquors- And upon Hawkers, Pedlars
and Travelling Dealers- Which Act
having been transmitted in Order
to receive His Majesty's Royal
Assent; Your Memorialists from
the liberality they flattered them-
selves they had discovered in making
the provisions thereby proposed, &
from the desire which appeared to
actuate every Branch of the
Legislature here, to form the Act
upon the most equitable Principles
and in a way the least Burthensome
to the Community, were encouraged
to hope for His Majesty's favorable
and