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Created: by the Free State, Northern Irish and British negotiators (1922-03-30)
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Agreement signed by Collins, Kevin O'Higgins, Craig, Churchill and others on March 30th, 1922.
¶1] Peace is to-day declared.
¶2] From to-day the two Governments undertake to co-operate in every way in their power with a view to the restoration of peaceful conditions in the unsettled areas.
¶3] The police in Belfast to be organised in general in accordance with the following conditions:
¶4] A Court to be constituted for the trial without jury of persons charged with serious crime, the Court to consist of the Lord Chief Justice and one of the Lords Justices of Appeal of Northern Ireland. Any person committed for trial for a serious crime to be tried by that court:
¶5] A Committee to be set up in Belfast of equal numbers Catholic and Protestant with an independent Chairman, preferably Catholic and Protestant alternately in successive weeks, to hear and investigate complaints as to intimidation, outrages, etc., such Committee to have direct access to the heads of the Government. The local Press to be approached with a view to inserting only such reports of disturbances, etc., as shall have been considered and communicated by this committee.
¶6] I.R.A. activity to cease in the Six Counties, and thereupon the method of organising the special police in the Six Counties outside Belfast shall proceed as speedily as possible upon lines similar to those agreed to for Belfast.
¶7] During the month immediately following the passing into law of the Bill confirming the constitution of the Free State (being the month within which the Northern Parliament is to exercise its option) and before any address in accordance with Article 12 of the Treaty is presented, there shall be a further meeting between the signatories to this agreement with a view to-ascertaining:
¶8] The return to their homes of persons who have been expelled to be secured by the respective Governments, the advice of the Committee mentioned in Article 5 to be sought in cases of difficulty.
¶9] In view of the special conditions consequent on the political situation in Belfast and neighbourhood, the British Government will submit to Parliament a vote not exceeding £500,000 for the Ministry of Labour of Northern Ireland to be expended exclusively on relief work, one-third for the benefit of Roman Catholics and two-thirds for the benefit of Protestants. The Northern signatories agree to use every effort to secure the restoration of the expelled workers, and wherever this proves impracticable at the moment, owing to trade depression, they will be afforded employment on the relief works referred to in this article so far as the one-third limit will allow. Protestant ex-service men to be given first preference in respect to the two-thirds of the said fund.
¶10] The two Governments shall in cases agreed upon between the signatories arrange for the release of political prisoners in prison for offences before the date hereof. No offences committed after March 31st, 1922, shall be open to consideration.
¶11] The two Governments unite in appealing to all concerned to refrain from inflammatory speeches and to exercise restraint in the interests of peace.
signed on behalf of the PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT:
MICHEÁL Ó COILEÁIN E. S. Ó DÚGÁIN CAOIMHGHIN Ó HUIGÍN ART Ó GRÍOBHTHAsigned on behalf of the GOVERNMENT OF NORTHERN IRELAND:
JAMES CRAIG LONDONDERRY E. M. ARCHDALECountersigned on behalf of the BRITISH GOVERNMENT:
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS