# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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To the Right Honorable the Lords Commissioners 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 issued 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 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 necessary Repairs of 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 Taubman's 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 Four 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 Majesty's Receiver General and others the Commissioners of the Sea
Ports and Harbours of the said Isle for the Payment of their said Debts chargeable
upon the Revenue and Funds arising from the said Harbours But the said
Commissioners under various pretences refuse to pay your Petitioners their
said Demands alledging that by an Act of Parliament passed in the Year 1770
Intituled An Act for repairing amending and supporting the several Harbours
in the said Isle of Mann which has made some vague and imperfect provision
for your Petitioners said Debts it is expressly ordered That it must be first
certified by the said Commissioners or a majority of them (whereof His
Majesty's said Receiver General to be one) that the said Harbours have been
put into sufficient Repair before your Petitioners said Debts can be paid.