# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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By an Act of the 5^th of His present
Majesty (commonly called the Vesting
Act) the general Wisdom and Policy of
which cannot be sufficiently commended,
His Grace the late Duke of Athol and
Charlotte his Dutchefs then the
Sovereign Lord and Lady of the Island,
for a full and Valuable consideration
and at a heavy Expence to the
Public, surrendered the Sovereignty and
Jurisdictions, which by that Act
became unlienably Vested in the Crown.
From that Period, its Legislature
has been composed of His Majesty
(instead of the Lord) the Governor
Council and Keys, who have since
concurred in enacting Laws for the
better regulation of its interior
Police and Government. In this
View of the Situation and Government
of the Island, Your Memorialists
submit that there cannot possibly
exist the most distant Shadow of
pretence for the Duke of Atholls
Interference in, much less his assent to
the