# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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The Order of the Day being read for the
ſecond reading of the Bill, " for more effec-
tually preventing the Miſchiefs ariſing to the
Revenue and Commerce of Great Britain and
Ireland, from the illicit and clandeſtine Trade
to and from the Iſle of Man ; the Counſel
againſt the Bill were called in ; and the ſaid
Bill was read a ſecond Time.

And the Petition of the moſt noble John
Duke of Athol, and Charlotte Ducheſs of
Athol, his Wife, Baroneſs Strange, was alſo
read.

And one of the Counſel againſt the Bill
was heard, and produced Evidence in Support
of the ſaid Petition ; And the other Counſel Mr. Coope
againſt the Bill was heard.

" I have the Honor alſo to attend this
" Honorable Houſe, as Counſel for the moſt
" Noble Proprietors of the Iſle of Man, who
" have inſtructed us to lay their Title to this
" Eſtate before you, and to offer on their Be-
" half ſome humble Remonſtrances againſt
" the Proviſions of a Bill, which they think
" and are adviſed, tend to overturn that Ti-
" tle, and to take away thoſe Rights, which
" they claim under a Parliamentary Charter,
" without any Compenſation or Equivalent."

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