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government here is responsible to the legislature of this country.
If any clause of a bill seemed to the viceroy to be _ultra vires_,
he could refer it to the judicial committee of the privy council
in London. The same reference, in respect of a section of an Irish
Act, lay open either to the English secretary of state, or to a
suitor, defendant, or other person concerned.

Future judges were to hold the same place in the Irish system as
English judges in the English system; their office was to be
during good behaviour; they were to be appointed on the advice of
the Irish government, removable only on the joint address of the
two orders, and their salaries charged on the Irish consolidated
fund. The burning question of the royal Irish constabulary was
dealt with provisionally. Until a local force was created by the
new government, they were to remain at the orders of the lord
lieutenant. Ultimately the Irish police were to come under the
control of the legislative body. For two years from the passing of
the Act, the legislative body was to fix the charge for the whole
constabulary of Ireland.

In national as in domestic housekeeping, the figure of available
income is the vital question. The total receipts of the Irish
exchequer would be L8,350,000, from customs, excise, stamps,
income-tax, and non-tax revenue. On a general comparison of the
taxable revenues of Ireland and Great Britain, as tested more
especially by the property passing under the death duties, the
fair proportion due as Ireland's share for imperial purposes, such
as interest on the debt, defence, and civil charge, was fixed at
one-fifteenth. This would bring the total charge properly imperial
up to L3,242,000. Civil charges in Ireland were put at L2,510,000,
and the constabulary charge on Ireland was not to exceed
L1,000,000, any excess over that sum being debited to England. The
Irish government would be left with a surplus of L404,000. This
may seem a ludicrously meagre amount, but, compared with the total
revenue, it is equivalent to a surplus on our own budget of that
date of something like five millions.

The true payment to imperial charges was to be L1,842,000 because
of the gross revenue above stated of L1,400,000 though paid in
Ireland in the first instance was really paid by British consumers