eason-felony, alienage, aliens as such, or
naturalisation; or
"(8) Trade with any place out of Ireland; or quarantine, or
navigation, including merchant shipping (except as respects inland
waters and local health or harbour regulations); or
"(9) Lighthouses, buoys, or beacons within the meaning of the
Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, and the Acts amending the same
(except so far as they can consistently with any general Act of
Parliament be constructed or maintained by a local harbour
authority); or
"(10) Coinage; legal tender; or any change in the standard of
weights and measures; or
"(11) Trade marks, designs, merchandise marks, copyright, or
patent rights.
"Provided always, that nothing in this section shall prevent the
passing of any Irish Act to provide for any charges imposed by Act
of Parliament, or to prescribe conditions regulating importation
from any place outside Ireland for the sole purpose of preventing
the introduction of any contagious disease.
"It is hereby declared that the exceptions from the powers of the
Irish Legislature contained in this section are set forth and
enumerated for greater certainty, and not so as to restrict the
generality of the limitation imposed in the previous section on
the powers of the Irish Legislature.
"Any law made in contravention of this section shall be void.
"4. The powers of the Irish Legislature shall not extend to the
making of any law--
"(1) Respecting the establishment or endowment of religion,
whether directly or indirectly, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof; or
"(2) Imposing any disability, or conferring any privilege,
advantage, or benefit, on account of religious belief, or raising
or appropriating directly or indirectly, save as heretofore, any
public revenue for any religious purpose, or for the benefit of
the holder of any religious office as such; or
"(3) Diverting the property, or, without its consent, altering the
constitution of any religious body; or
"(4) Abrogating or prejudicially affecting the right to establish
or maintain any place of denominational education, or any
denominational institution or charity; or
"(5) Whereby there may be established or endowed out of public
funds any theological professorship, or any u
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