# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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this part of Great Britain. They therefore Submit
it to your Lordships whether it would be
advisable or not to apply to Parliament for a
Clause to that End.

That with respect to the Interior Commerce
of this Island your Memorialist can at present
think of only two Methods of checking it to
Advantage— that the first is to take off the
Bounty upon Corn exported to the Isle of Man,
for such is the State of that Trade at present
that on a late Survey made by M^r Clerk
and M^r Burges, two of your Memorialists
Number, through the South West parts of Scotland
they saw large Tracts of Country newly improved
and covered with Barley, intended, as the People
of the Country freely acknowledged, for the Isle of Man.

That the second Method your Memorialists
would humbly propose is, that as at present the
greatest part of the Strong Beer Exported from the Isle
of Man, is on board Ships from Whitehaven, Liverpool,
Glasgow, and other Western Ports of Britain, bound chiefly
to the Coast of Guinea, and Virginia. They submit it
to your Lordships consideration whether it should not
be provided That no Ship or Vessel bound from any Port
in Great Britain or Ireland, shall on any pretence
what ever, receive on board any Malt Liquor at, or
from the Isle of Man, on pain of forfeiture of such
Vessel