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tind thencefortli from time to time, 

 us circumstances may require, to 

 impose and apply such taxes ac- 

 cordingly, subject only to such par- 

 ticular exemptions or abatements 

 in Ireland, and in tliat part of Great 

 Britain called Scotland, as circum- 

 stances may appear from time to 

 time to demand : that, from the pe- 

 riod of such declaration, it shall no 

 longer be necessary to regulate the 

 contribution of the two countries 

 towards the future expenditure of 

 the united kingdom, accordinci- to 

 any specific proportion, or according 

 to any of the rules hereinbefore 

 prescribed ; provided, nevertheless, 

 that the interest or charges which 

 may remain on account of any part 

 of the separate debt with which 

 cither country shall be chargeable, 

 and which shall not be liquidated 

 or consolidated proportionably as 

 above, shall, until extinguished, 

 continue to be defrayed by separate 

 taxes in each country: that a sum, 

 not less than the sum which has been 

 granted by the parliament of Ire- 

 land, on the average of six years 

 immediately preceding the 1st day 

 of January, in the year 1800, in 

 premiums for the internal encou- 

 ragement of agriculture or manu- 

 factures, or for the maintaining in- 

 stitutions for pious and charitable 

 purposes, shall be applied, for the 

 period of twenty years after the 

 union, to such local pui'poses in Ire- 

 land, in such manner as the parlia- 

 ment of the united kingdom shall 

 direct: that, from and after the 1st 

 day of January, 1S(M, all public 

 revenue arising to the united king- 

 dom, from the territorial dejjeu- 

 dencies thereof, and applied to the 

 general expenditure of the united 

 kingdom, shall be so applied in the 

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proportions of the respective con- 

 tiibutious of the two countries. 



Resolved, that it be the eighth 

 article of the union, that all laws in 

 force, at the time of the union, and 

 all the courts of civil and ecclesi- 

 astical jurisdiction witliin the re- 

 spective kingdoms, shall remain 

 now as by law established within 

 the same, subject only to such alter- 

 ations and regulations from time 

 to time as circumstances may ap- 

 pear to the parliament of the united 

 kingdom to require; provided that 

 all writs of error and appeals de- 

 pending at the time of the union, 

 or hereafter to be brought, nnH 

 which might now be finally decided 

 by the house of lords of cither 

 kingdom, shall from and after the 

 union be finally decided by the 

 house of lords of the united king- 

 dom; and provided that, from and 

 after the union, there shall remain 

 in Ireland an instance court of ad- 

 miralty, for the determination of 

 causes civil and maritime only ; and 

 that the appeal fi-om sentences of 

 the said court, shall be to his ma- 

 jesty's delegates in his court of 

 chancery in that part of the united 

 kingdom called Ireland; and that 

 all laws at present in force in either 

 kingdom, which shall be contrary 

 to any of the provisions which may 

 be enacted by any act for carrying 

 these articles into eflcct, be from 

 and after the union repealed. 



Address to the King with the above 

 lie so I II lions. 

 Most gracious sovereign, 

 We, your majesty's most dutiful 

 and loyal subjects, the lords spiri- 

 tual and temporal, and commons, 

 in ]i;u-liament assembled, humbly 

 beg leave to acquaint vour majestv, 

 O 



