ment, 308 such provisions were incorporated in the Senegambian government 
established by conciliar order. 309 But no appeals were taken to the Privy Council 
during the period under consideration. We have already noticed in the 
previous chapter the regulations governing appeals from East India. 
No direct regulation of appeals from the proprietary lords of the Isle of Man 
(the Earl of Derby, and later the Duke of Atholl) existed. But certain rules 
were promulgated for regulation of the intermediate appeal from the local 
courts to the proprietor. In 1666 the Earl of Derby had ordered that no appeals 
should be received when the matter in dispute was under 310 A June, 1737, 
act of Tynwald enacted that all appeals were to be presented and bonds entered 
into in order to an effectual prosecution within six months of the judgment or 
sentence appealed from. 311 The six-month period was interpreted as applicable 
only to the appeal presentation and entrance into bond, with no reference 
to the subsequent prosecution. This further time and the amount of the bond 
were usually fixed in the acceptance and varied with the nature of the cause. 312 
When the crown assumed the island in 1765, 313 there was some unsuccessful 
agitation to retain the intermediate appellate jurisdiction of the proprietor. 314 
Wood, installed as royal governor, required bonds of appellants to 
answer costs, 315 but sought the Council Board's advice in efforts to reconcile 
rejection of trifling appeals with prohibition to the subject of appeal to the 
dernier resort without proper authority. 316 The Secretary of State for the 
Northern Department informed Wood that there was no specific minimum 
for the Isle of Man, but that the Council Board reserved the right to reject 
trifling causes and to award costs when appeals were obviously litigious. Therefore, 
the governor was advised not to interfere except by cautioning appellants 
and not in any case to prohibit proceeding to the dernier resort —at least not 
until the Privy Council had drawn some line for guidance. 317 The latter, however, 
did limit its jurisdiction to civil appeals. 318 
Sos 5 Geo. 111, c. 44. 
309 p C 2 / 111 / i92; Martin, The British West 
African Settlements (1927), 65-72. 
310 The Constitution of the Isle of Man, Consisting 
of Part the Third of the Report of the 
Commissioners of Inquiry for the Isle of Man, 
Made in the Year 1792 (31 Manx Soc. Pub., 
1882), Appendix A, #78; Governor Wood 
to the Duke of Grafton, Dec. 10, 1765 (SP 
48/1); PC 2/88/511. But compare Constitution 
Isle Man, loc. cit., 37. 
311 Ancient Ordinances and Statute Laws of 
the Isle of Man (ed. Mills, 1821), 244—45. 
312 Constitution Isle Man, loc. cit., 37. Cf. the 
statement as to the bond in chancery 
and exchequer appeals (ibid.) and the £30 
bond for payment of costs in all appeals 
(Governor Wood to the Duke of Grafton, Dec. 
10, 1765 [SP 48/1]). 
813 5 Geo. 111, c. 26. 
314 Governor Wood to Secretary of State Conway, 
June 13, 1766 (SP 48/1). 
315 Governor Wood to the Duke of Grafton, 
Dec. 10, 1765 (ibid.). 
316 Governor Wood to the Earl of Suffolk, 
Sept. 18, 1776 (SP 48/2). 
317 The Earl of Suffolk to Governor Wood, 
Oct. 11, 1776 (ibid.). Cf. J. Johnson, A View 
of the Jurisprudence of the Isle of Man (1811), 
53-54; Const. Isle Man, loc. cit., 281-83. 
318 Lieutenant-Governor Dawson to the Earl 
of Suffolk, Dec. 2, 1776 (SP 48/2); the Earl 
of Suffolk to the Lords Commissioners of the 
Treasury, Dec. 5, 1776 (ibid.).