# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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which all acts of Tynwald are passed; viz. the
approbation or consent of the Governor, or
Lieutenant-Governor, with a majority of the
Council, and the *consent of thirteen members of
the Keys.*"

That, according to the practice always ob-
served in similar cases, these answers ought to
have been delivered by the Governor to the
proper officer, and inrolled among the records:
in the present instance, the answers were *not* so
delivered and inrolled—a suppression on which
your Petitioners think it unnecessary to enlarge;
but they humbly submit to your Honorable
House, whether there exists any other authority
equally competent to decide on any question
relating to the common law of the Island, as
that of its judges.

That by a return made to your Honorable
House, on the 20th of February last, your
Petitioners observe, that on the 22d January,
1823, his Grace had written to the Right Ho-
norable the Secretary of State on this subject, and
had also subsequently transmitted certain do-
cuments; but whether among these were found
these two judicial answers, or what may be
the nature of these ex-parte proceedings, is to
your Petitioners still utterly unknown.

That on the 9th February last your Peti-
tioners were, for the first time, informed by the