Appendix C(39) 1792 Report of Commissioners of Inquiry]

APPENDIX (C.) N° 39

MINUTES OF THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S PROTEST RESPECTING MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, 21ST SEPTEMBER, 1791.

Liber Scaccar. 1791.

At a Tynwald Court, &c.

THE Right Reverend the Bishop, and the Reverend Evan Christian, one of his Vicars-General, appearing this day in court, as members of the Council, the Attorney General desires it may be entered on the minutes, that he having submitted to the Honourable the Lieutenant-Governor his objections against the claim of the Right Reverend the Bishop to form a part of the Council, and his still stronger objections against the like claim of the two Vicars-General, thinks it his duty to protest against the admission of these gentlemen, or any of them, in that capacity, before his Majesty's pleasure is known.

The Clerk of the Rolls declares his concurrence in the above Protest of the Attorney-General.

Rolls Office, the 21st September, 1791.

Recorded by order of his Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, by JOHN QUAYLE, C.R.

Examined by
JOHN QUAYLE, C.R.