APPENDIX 5 [CREDENTIALS OF PLENIPOTENTIARIES] TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS COME, GREETING:

In virtue of the authority vested in me by DÁIL ÉIREANN, I hereby appoint

Arthur Griffith, T.D., Minister for Foreign Affairs

Chairman

Michael Collins, T.D., Minister of Finance

Robert C. Barton, T.D., Minister for Economic Affairs

Edmund J. Duggan, T.D.

George Gavan Duffy, T.D.

as Envoys Plenipotentiary from the Elected Government of the REPUBLIC OF IRELAND to negotiate and conclude on behalf of Ireland with the representatives of his Britannic Majesty, GEORGE V., a Treaty or Treaties of Settlement, Association and Accommodation between Ireland and the community of nations known as the British Commonwealth.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF I hereunto subscribe my name as President.