# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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with respect to any Customs or Impost Duties which you may receive
the several species of Goods on which they are levied, the Rates at which [margin: the ille[obscured]]
they are paid, and the annual amount of the duties arising from each [margin: and y[obscured]]
species respectively. - We must know the nature as well as value of
every branch of the Revenue of this Island, before We can form any
Judgement of the price which ought to be paid for it; or can Determine
what part of your Graces possessions in this Island it will be necessary
or expedient to purchase, in order to obtain the benefit for which
such purchase is intended; and this is what we meant by the propo-
sal we made in former Letters, of purchasing only a part of your
Graces property and Rights in the said Island. -

As it is highly probable that parliament will expect
to be informed in the ensuing Session, what measures have been taken
for carrying their Intentions into Execution, and what has passed
upon the Subject, We are the more desirous to obtain from your Grace
the Information above mentioned in the most full and accurate manner,
that the parliament may thereby be enabled to Judge what terms it
may be proper to allow: They will then take into consideration the
Objections mentioned by your Grace, arising from the proximity of
of that Island, and from its present Constitution, Laws and, Adminis-
tration of Justice, as well as the interior trade and commerce, and as
they have frequently made Laws respecting this Island, they will
enact such other Laws, and make such other provisions, for preventing
the