Press Release concerning Great Seal of the Irish Free State (1931)
“ The arrangement now made is that the Government of the Irish Free State will advise His Majesty direct, and that the channel of communication heretofore used, namely, the Secretary of State for the Dominions, will no longer be used. In addition, a seal will be struck in the Irish Free State to be used on all documents of the kind referred to issued by the King on the advice of the Government of the Irish Free State and on which the Great Seal of the Realm has been used heretofore. ”
