# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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day (whatever changes may have taken
place therein) it is fit and proper that
the Rec^r General should resume his Seat
in the Council

Within a few years last past a most
extraordinary proposition has been advanced
respecting the Tynwald, namely that the
Deemsters form a separate and distinct
branch of the Tynwald Court. The Consequence
of this Doctrine would be that a Deemster
by his single Veto should have the power
of putting a negative upon the Proceedings
of a Legislative Body a power not possessed
or claimed by any other Individual in the
King's Dominions (or in the World I believe)
not being or representing the Sovereign —
The Doctrine is too absurd to deserve serious
refutation — In Short it is one of the Discoveries
of Modern times, which produceth Darkness
rather than light —