The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-19
Summary of the Provisions of
the Bill.
IT WAS READ A FIRST TINE.
A Legislature to Be Established in
ireland.
Financial Liabilities Are Specified and
Expenditures Are Classified-Powers
of the Lord Lieutenant Desig-
mated and Defined.


of commons. Following is a summary OF
It's provisions: There shall be established
in Ireland legislature consisting of Her
majesty, the Queen, and two houses OF
legislative council and a legislative as
senbly, subject to restrictions men
toned in the act. The Irish legislature is
given power to make laws for the govern
ment OF Ireland in respect to matters e1-
clusively relating TO that country. II
shall not have power to make laws re-
specting the following matters: The
status or dignity of the crown, or success
sion to the crown or regency, though the
Lord Lieutenant as a representative of the
crown making peace or war matters
arising from a state of war; naval or
military forces or defense of the realm:
treaties, or other relations with foreign
states, or relations between different
3parts of her majesty's dominions, or
offenses connected with such treaties,
dignities or titles of honor, treason or
treason felony; alieRage or naturaliza-
tiOn trade outside OF Ireland; Quaran
tine OF navigation except on inland
tons; beacons, lighthouses or sea marks,
except where consistent with general
act of parliament they may be constructed
or maintained by local authority, coinage
of legal tender standard weight or meas
ures; trade marks, merchandise marks,
copyright or patent rights.
Any law respecting the establishment
or endowment or religions or prohibiting
free exercise thereof; of imposing any dis
ability or comforting any privileges on
account of religious belief or abrogating
or preiudicially affecting the right to es-
tablish or maintain any place of denoml-
national education or any de-
nominational institution or char
lty, or prejudicially affecting
the right of any child to attend school,
receiving public money without attending
religious instruction at school. or where
by any person may be deprived OF life,
liberty or property without due process OF
law or denied equal protection of the
laws, or whereby private property is
taken without just compensation, or
whereby any existing corporation, incor-
porated by royal charter or act of parlia-
meGt, not being corporation, raising for
public purposes taxes, rates, cess duea or
tolls, or administering funds so raised,
may, unless it consents or leave of her
majesty is first obtained on an address
from the Irish legislature, be deprived OF
its rights, privileges or property without
due process of law, or whereby any IN
haoitant be deprived OF equal rights in
the public sea fisheries. All laws made in
cOntravention of above shall be void.
The executive power shall continue to
be vested in the queen, through the lord
lieutenant, with power to summon, pro-
pogue and dissolve the Irish legislature.
There shall be an executive committee of
the privy council in Ireland to aid and adj
wise the government, to be named by the
queen and the lord lieutenant, to have
power to veto acts of legislature.
The legislative council shall consist of
forty eight councillors elected from the
Constituents according to the accompany
ing act. Every person shall be entitled to
vote for members of the council who owns
or occupies land or tenement value of
more than $50. The term of Office of
councillors shall be eighJ years, and not
be affected by dissolution, half of the
councillors to retire every fourth year
The legislative assembly shall consist of
members returned by existing parliament
tary constituencies, to continue In Office
five years, unless sooner dissolved. After
six years from the passage of this act the
Irish legislature may alter the qualifica-
tons of electors and constituencies. If
the legislative assembly passes any bill
and the Legislative council rejects it, and
If after two years the legislative assembly
again passes it, then it shall be submitted
adopted or rejected by majority of such
Joint votes.
The present parliamentary constituent
cies until otherwise provided shall con-
tinue to elect members to parliament but
the Dublin university shall cease to return
a member. Existing divisions of constit-
uencies as provided by schedule are abol-
ished. The Irish peers in the house of
lords and members of the commons for
the Irish constituency are not entitled to
deliberate or vote on any bill or motion,
the operation of which is confined to
Great Britain. or the raising of any tax
not to he raised in Ireland. The election
laws and laws relating TO the qualifica-
tions of parliamentary electors, SO far as
they relate TO parliamentary elections,
shall not be altered by the Irish legisla-
ture, though that body may deal with any
officers concerned with the issue of writs
of election, though the queen may in
council arrange Tor the issue of such
writs.
There shall be an Irish exchequer and
consolidated fund separate from the
united kingdom. Customs duties and
excise, and postage imposed by parlia-
ment, subject to the provisions OF this act.
The Irish legislature may impose other
taxes and all matters relating TO taxes in
Ireland and the management and collec-
lion thereof shall be regulated by Irish
act; provided, that duties and customs
may be regulated, collected and paid into
the exchequer of the united kingdom as
heretofore. All public revenues of Ire
land shall be paid into the Irish exchequer
and form consolidated fund appropriated
to tue public service of Ireland by the
Irish act. Ii the excise duties increase
above the present rates the excess shall
be paid to the united kingdom, if
the deficiency shall be paid
from the exchequer of the united king |
dom into the Irish exchequer. Hereditary
revenues OF the crown in Ireland shall |
during the life of her present |
majesty, the amopnt payable from them |
into the exchequer to be paid into the |
Irish exchequer. Neither country shall |
collect an income tax on business carried |
on in the other Island to be compensated |
for income taxes on Irish securities held |
by residents Of Great Britain.
The civil charges of the government of /
Ireland are to be borne by Ireland. After |
fifteen years the arrangement for the con-
triDution of Ireland to imperial liabilities |
and expenditures and otherwise for !
financial relations of Ireland may oe re-
vised in pursuance of an address
from the house of commons or
Irish assembly.
The bill provides for the establishment /
under the direction of the treasury ac-
count referred TO In this act as the |
Treasury account Ireland - There is
10 be paid into such account all sums
PAYABLE from the Irish exchequer to the
sxcheas1er United Kingdom or from the (
latter to the former. So far as the money
Standing on account is sufficient for the
purpose of meeting such sums of the
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