188 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1800. 



created after the union, shall have 

 rank and precedency with the peer- 

 ages of the united kingdom so 

 created, according to the dates of 

 their creations ; and that all peer- 

 ages, both of Great Britain and 

 Ireland, now subsisting, or here- 

 after to be created, shall, in all 

 other respects, from the date of the 

 union, be considered as peerages of 

 the united kingdom, and that the 

 peers of Ireland shall, as peers of 

 the united kingdom, be sued and 

 tried as peers, except as aforesaid, 

 and shall enjoy all privileges of peers 

 as fully as the peers of Great Bri- 

 tain ; the right and privilege of sit- 

 ting in the house of lords, and the 

 privileges depending thereon, and 

 the right of sitting on the trial of 

 peers, only excepted. 



Resolved, that it be the fifth arti- 

 cle of union, that the churches of 

 England and Ireland, as now by 

 law established, be united into one 

 protestant episcopal church, to be 

 called " The United Church of 

 England and Ireland ;" and that the 

 doctrine, worship, discipline and 

 government of the said united 

 church shall be, and shall remain in 

 full force for ever, as the same are 

 now bylaw established for thechurch 

 of England ; and that the continu- 

 ance and preservation of the said 

 united church, as the established 

 church of England and Ireland, shall 

 be deemed and taken to be an essen- 

 tial and fundamental part of the 

 union ; and that in like manner the 

 doctrine, worship, discipline and go- 

 vernment of the church of Scotlan4 

 shall remain and be preserved as the 

 same are now established by law, 

 and by the acts for the union of 

 the two kingdoms of England and 

 Scotland. 



Resolved, that it be the sixth 



article of union, that his majesty's 

 subjects of Great Britain and Ire- 

 land shall, from and after the 1st 

 day of January, 1801, be entitled 

 to the same privileges, and be on 

 the same footing, as to encourage- 

 ments and bounties on the like arti- 

 cles, being the growth, produce, or 

 manufacture of either country re- 

 spectively, and, generally, in re- 

 spect of trade and navigation, in all 

 ports and places in the united king- 

 dom and its dependencies ; and 

 that, in all treaties made by his ma- 

 jesty, his heirs and successors, with 

 any foreign power, his majesty's 

 subjects of Ireland shall have the 

 same privileges, and be on the same 

 footing, as his majesty's subjects 

 of Great Britain : that, from the 1 st 

 day of January, 1801, all prohibi- 

 tions and bounties on the export of 

 articles, the growth, produce, or 

 manufacture of either country, to 

 the other, shall cease and deter- 

 ■ mine ; and that the said articles 

 shall henceforth be exported from 

 one country to the other without 

 duty or bounty on such export : 

 that all articles, the growth, pro- 

 duce, or manufacture of either 

 country, (not herein-after enume- 

 rated as subject to specific duties,) 

 shall from thenceforth be imported 

 into each country from the other, 

 free from duty, other than such 

 countervailing duties on the several 

 articles enumerated in the schedule. 

 No. 1. A. and B. hereunto annexed, 

 as therein specified, or to such other 

 countervailing duties as shall here- 

 after be imposed by the parliament 

 of the united kingdom in the man- 

 ner hereinafter provided ; and that, 

 for the period of twenty years from 

 the union, the articles enumerated 

 in the schedule. No. 2, hereunto 

 annexed, shall be subject, on impor- 



