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The second--Clause 42--provides that Irish laws shall be interpreted
always in legal subordination to Acts of the Imperial Parliament:--
"(2) Where any Act of the Irish Parliament deals with any matter with
respect to which the Irish Parliament have power to make laws which is
dealt with by any Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed
after the passing of this Act and extending to Ireland, the Act of the
Irish Parliament shall be read subject to the Act of the Parliament of
the United Kingdom, and so far as it is repugnant to that Act, but no
further, shall be void."
APPENDIX B
THE SHRINKAGE OF IRELAND
(1.) THE DECREASE IN POPULATION SINCE 1841.
------+--------------+-----------+-----------+------------------------
Year. | Population. | Decrease. | Decrease | Great Britain.
| | | per cent. | Increase per cent.
| | | +-----------+------------
| | | | England. | Scotland.
------+--------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+------------
1841 | 8,196,597 | -- | -- | -- | --
1851 | 6,574,278 | 1,622,319 | 19.
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