# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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(tho We cannot Report to Your Lordships
with that degree of Certainty We could Wish)
that the Annual Income Arising from
those Duties to the Proprietor is about
Five Thousand Pounds.

We humbly hope Your Lordships
will Excuse Our not having before this time
made Our Report, owing entirely to the
length of time our enquiry took up, and beg
Leave to Assure Your Lordships, that im-
-mediately upon the Receipt of Your Orders
We took all the necessary Steps to Comply
as speedily with Your Lordships Directions
as the nature of the Enquiry would admit.

Pursuant to Your Lordships further
Order of the Ninth day of this Month, We
have inclos'd to Your Lordships the Revenue
Law lately pass'd in this Kingdom, in
which all the Revenue Laws enacted
with respect to the Isle of Man are
collected together, as also a Clause
which