# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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" Service of the State demands a Reſumption
" of their ancient hereditary Rights, and Re-
" venues, they throw themſelves, with the
" moſt dutiful Submiſſion, upon the Pleaſure
" of their Sovereign, and the Diſpoſal of
" Parliament, truſting with unlimited Con-
" fidence, in the juſtice of His Majeſty and
" his Parliament, diſtinguiſhed in all their
" Acts for their Attention to, and Tenderneſs
" of, the Civil Rights, and Property of the
" Subject; and relying on the Faith held
" out and pledged to them by the Legiſlator
" on a former Occaſion: that the Petitioners
" beg Leave to make this Declaration, at a
" Time when Overtures have been made to
" them by the Officers of the Crown, under
" the Powers of the ſaid Act, and when they
" obſerve, by the Votes of the Houſe, that a
" Bill is depending for a ſecond reading, in-
" tituled, " A Bill for the more effectual pre-
" venting the Miſchiefs ariſing to the Revenue
" and Commerce of *Great Britain* and *Ire-*
" *land*, from the illicit and clandeſtine Trade
" *to* and *from* the Iſle of Man;" by which,
" ſhould the ſame paſs into a Law, the Petiti-
" oners apprehend all the valuable Rights,
" Privileges, and Advantages, granted to
A 3 " their