# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
**Method:** Automated (Claude Batch API — claude-opus-4-6)

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which the beforementioned Buildings
(with the aid of the Revenues) formerly
were and of Right ought to be maintained;
Yet no Provision having by that Act
been made for those necessary and
Publick Objects, An Omission much to be
lamented and which Your Memorialists
are inclined to think would not have
happened, had this Island received
any Notice of the passing of that
Act, or been so fortunate as to have had
An Agent in London. These Buildings
have become ruinous and without several
considerable alterations and Improvements,
which Time and other circumstances
have rendered indispensibly necessary,
are, and must be highly inconvenient,
and in many Respects totally inadequate
to the purposes of Civil Government,
among those who pay any regard to
Decorum, and wish to enjoy the Blessings
of a well regulated Society — In all cases
of Imprisonment short of Felony, there