# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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[margin: AP 34A - 19]

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 Petitioner's
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 &
Receiver General to be one/ that the said Harbours have been put
into sufficient Repair before your Petitioner's said Debts can be paid.
That your Petitioners are credibly informed - - there have
been several thousand Pounds levied and collected from the said Harbours
since the passing of the said Act of Parliament Yet your Petitioners
understand and have the greatest reason to believe that the said
Commissioners will never consider the said Harbours so sufficiently
repaired as to grant your Petitioners such a Certificate as is required
by the said Act or to pay and discharge their said Debts which
were a prior Lien and Charge upon the said Harbour Funds and
ought in all Justice and Equity to be intitled to a prior Payment
as your Petitioners are well advised Wherefore in conformity to
said Act your Petitioners are necessitated to apply to your Lordships
for Relief and Redress in the Premises.

) And therefore most humbly pray that your
Lordships will be graciously pleased in aid of
common Justice to order your Petitioners Payment
of their said Debts out of the said Harbour Funds
And until Payment be so made That your
Petitioners may be Ordered the Yearly Interest of said
Bond Debts agreeable to the Original Contract and
Agreement on the faith and credit whereof your
Petitioners lent and advanced the said Sums as
aforesaid And your Petitioners will for your
Lordships ever pray &c