# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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Seizures within the Iſle of Man, and that if
Seizures were made in the Iſland by Force of
the 7th of George the Firſt, they muſt be
proſecuted to Condemnation in their proper
Court here.

I have a greater Authority ſtill, the Autho-
rity of the Preamble of the preſent Bill, which
recites that it was ineffectual.

Was it in fact ever executed? Did the
Officers of the Cuſtoms ever invade the
Iſland ; Did they in any one inſtance, make
a Seizure in the Iſland, or proſecute the Sei-
zure to Condemnation out of the Iſland ? Did
the Crown, or the Eaſt India Company, for
whoſe Benefit the Act was principally intended,
ever inſtitute any Suit under the Powers of
the Act ?

If not the Act was a dead Letter to the Iſle
of Man, and the ſame as if it never had exiſted.
The Lord had no Notice of it. It never af-
fected his Rights or made any Impreſſion on
his Property. He had no Reaſon to com-
plain or to remonſtrate.

What does the Acquieſcence of thoſe under
whom he claims, amount to? Strain the
Fiction as far as you can, it amounts only to
an Acquieſcence of Five Years, under an
ineffectual and unexecuted Law.

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