THE TREATY PROVISIONS

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 129, 3 June 1922, Page 5

THE TREATY PROVISIONS

CANADIAN MODEL STIPULATED,

The form of Constitution of the Free State ie set out in the first three articles of the Treaty. The text of these articles is as follows :—

I. Ireland shall have the same constitutional status in the Community of Nations known as the British. Empire as the Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa, with a Parliament having powers to make laws for the peace,- order, and.'good government of Ireland, \ and an Executive responsible to that Parliament, and shall be styled and known as the Irish Free State.

'. II." Subject to the provisions hereinafter, set out the position of the Irish Free State in relation to the Imperial Parliament and Government, and otherwise, shall be that of the Dominion of Canada, and the law, practice, and constitutional usage governing the relationship of the Crown or the representative of the Crown, and of the Imperial Parliament to the Dominion of Canada shall govern their relationship to the Irish Free State.

111. The representative of the Crown in Ireland shall be appointed in like manner as the Governor-General* of Canada, and in accordance with the practice observed, in the "making of such appointment.