ter after 1801.

APPENDIX D

THE HOME RULE BILLS OF 1886 AND 1893

(1) THE BILL OF 1886.

[Sidenote: A.D. 1886]

A Bill to Amend the provision for the future Government of Ireland.

BE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the
advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in
this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as
follows:

PART I.

_Legislative Authority._

[Sidenote: Establishment of Irish Legislature.]

1. On and after the appointed day there shall be established in Ireland
a Legislature consisting of Her Majesty the Queen and an Irish
Legislative Body.

[Sidenote: Powers of Irish Legislature.]

2. With the exceptions and subject to the restrictions in this Act
mentioned, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty the Queen, by and with
the advice of the Irish Legislative Body, to make laws for the peace,
order, and good government of Ireland, and by any such law to alter and
repeal any law in Ireland.

[Sidenote: Exceptions from powers of Irish Legislature.]

3. The Legislature of Ireland shall not make laws relating to the
following matters or any of them:--

(1.) The status or dignity of the Crown, or the succession to
the Crown, or a Regency;

(2.) The making of peace or war;

(3.) The army, navy, militia, volunteers, or other military or
naval forces, or the defence of the realm;

(4.) Treaties and other relations with foreign States, or the
relations between the various parts of Her Majesty's
dominions;

(5.) Dignities or titles of honour;

(6.) Prize or booty of war;

(7.) Offences against the law of nations; or offences committed
in violation of any treaty made, or hereafter to be made,
between Her Majesty and any foreign State; or offences
committed on the high seas;

(8.) Treason, alienage, or naturalization;

(9.) Trade, navigation, or quarantine;

(10.) The postal and telegraph service, except as hereafter in
this Act mentioned with respect to the transmission of
letters and telegrams in Ireland;

(11.) Beacons, lighthouses, or sea marks;

(12.) The coinage; the value of foreign money; legal tender; or
weights and measures; or

(13.) Copyright, patent rights, or other exclusive rights to the
use or profits of any works or inventions.

Any law