# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
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expenditure and Your Memorialists
submit, it is but just and equitable
that the Public and not Individuals
should bear the Burthen. It consists
also with Your Excellencys knowledge
that those Expenditures form no
great part of the Estimates on
which the Assessment is founded—
And it may be worth observing
that on Occasions like the present,
where the Necessity has been apparent,
the Assessment proposed by the Act
will be found not unconstitutional
nor unsupported by precedents.

The Minute Detail of the
repeated Encroachments attempted
from the same Source as well against
the Government as the people of this
Isle Your Memorialists would wish
to avoid— lest it might prove offensive
to the Ear of Majesty or appear to
derogate from the Respect that is
due to his Graces exalted Rank
and Station— Yet circumstances
there