a sum equal to _one fifteenth_ part of the
diminution shall be deducted from the current annual contribution for
the same matter.

(6.) The sum paid from time to time by the Commissioners of Her
Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues to the Consolidated Fund of
the United Kingdom on account of the hereditary revenues of the Crown in
Ireland shall be credited to the Irish Government, and go in reduction
of the said annual contribution payable on account of the Imperial civil
expenditure of the United Kingdom, but shall not be taken into account
in calculating whether such diminution as above mentioned has or has not
taken place in such expenditure.

(7.) If it appears to Her Majesty that the expenditure in respect of the
Royal Irish Constabulary and the Dublin Metropolitan Police for any
financial year has been less than the contribution above named on
account of such constabulary and police, the current contribution shall
be diminished by the amount of such difference.

(8.) This section shall take effect from and after the _thirty-first day
of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven_.

[Sidenote: Collection and application of customs and excise duties in
Ireland.]

14.--(1.) On and after such day as the Treasury may direct all moneys
from time to time collected in Ireland on account of the duties of
customs or the duties of excise as defined by this Act shall, under such
regulations as the Treasury from time to time make, be carried to a
separate account (in this Act referred to as the customs and excise
account) and applied in the payment of the following sums in priority as
mentioned in this section; that is to say,--

First, of such sum as is from time to time directed by the Treasury
in respect of the costs, charges, and expenses of and incident to
the collection and management of the said duties in Ireland not
exceeding four per cent. of the amount collected there;

Secondly, of the annual contributions required by this Act to be
made to the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom;

Thirdly, of the annual sums required by this Act to be paid to the
Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt;

Fourthly, of all sums by this Act declared to be payable out of the
moneys carried to the customs and excise account;

Fifthly, of all sums due to the Consolidated Fund of the United
Kingdom for interest or sinking fund, in respe