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1 The resolution is reproduced in a collection of documents entitled Status and Constitution, presented by the Irish Free State delegates to the Fourth Assembly of the League of Nations, in 1923, p. 12.
2 12 George V, ch. 4.
3 The Irish Law Times and Solicitors, Journal, Public General Statutes for 1923. Saorstdt Eireann (Number 1 of 1922), p. 1.
4 13 George V, ch. 1.
5 See League of Nations Official Journal. Records of the Fourth Assembly, pp. 23–4.
6 See League of Nations Registration of Treaties, No. 34, July, 1924, p. 2; Monthly Summary of the League of Nations, Vol. IV, No. 8, p. 151. The registration has recently been the subject of communications addressed to the Secretary-General by the British government. The registration was effected “at the request of the representative of the Irish Free State accredited to the League of Nations.”
7 11 George V, ch. 67.
8 See the correspondence relating to Article 12, from July 19, 1923 to June 17, 1924, published by Saorstdt Eireann.
9 Section 4 of this Act reads:
“It shall be lawful for his Majesty to refer to the said judicial committee for hearing or consideration any such other matters whatsoever as his Majesty shall think fit; and such committee shall thereupon hear or consider the same, and shall advise his Majesty thereon in manner aforesaid.” 3 and 4 William IV, ch. 41.
10 Cmd. 2214.
11 London Times, August 2, 1924.
12 See the very interesting debate in the Dail Eireann on August 12, 1924. Irish Parliamentary Debates of that date, pp. 5609–5700. The typical attitude was succinctly stated by Mr. Darrell Figgis, column 5654, “Paragraph 1 of Article 12 has been taken advantage of. We claim that Paragraph 2 follows.” For an account of the enactment of the Act, see The Round Table, No. 57, pp. 24–47 (December, 1924).
13 New York Times, November 29, 1924.
14 Ibid., December 7, 1924.