# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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To the Honorable the Commons
of Great Britain and Ireland, in
Parliament assembled ;

THE

HUMBLE PETITION

OF THE

HOUSE OF KEYS,
*the Constitutional Representatives of the People
of the Isle of Man,*
WHOSE NAMES ARE HEREUNTO SUBSCRIBED,

SHEWETH,

THAT the internal legislation of the Island
rests, and as far as can be traced in the earliest
records, has ever rested, in the Governor and
Council, possessing offices to which they are
severally nominated by the Sovereign alone,
and in your Petitioners, on the part of the inha-
bitants: that all Acts receiving the signature and
assent of a majority of these two bodies, and the
approbation of the Sovereign, being then duly
published in conformity to ancient form, consti-
tute their statute-law.

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