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tlie ensuing year, and the party hired received a retainer, or 

 hiring fee. 



This is still done in the enlistment of soldiers, the sum- 

 moning of witnesses, and in securing the services of counsel, 

 and did very well when the servants to be hired were few ; 

 but after the Labour Laws were amended, and the Statutes 

 referred to were repealed, then servants were no longer 

 compelled to remain in their own parish, but moved from 

 place to place ; and it became a common thing for un- 

 principled servants to take hiring fees from different masters 

 and get drunk with the good conduct money. 



Consequently these " mops," " fairs," and *' statutes," 

 became such nuisances, that in many places they have been 

 entirely abolished, and those who wish to find good servants 

 never think of going to such places for them. 



But the "Statutes" being abolished the question comes, 

 " Where are employers to hnd servants to suit them, and 

 servants employers requiring the labour they have to dispose 

 of?" This is one of the difficulties that naturally result 

 during a transition state. The old institution has been 

 swept away, but where is the new and better one to be 

 found ? 



The Author, seeing the dilemma in which both masters 

 and servants have been placed by the altered circumstances 

 of the times, has — and he believes successfully — found the 

 desideratum so anxiously desired, and so much needed by 

 the public, and that is a Free Registry, where servants can 

 record their wants, and employers their requirements, and 

 both can be accommodated without trouble or expense. 



To illustrate the benefits of a Free Registry to both em- 

 ployers and employes, let us suppose a gentleman wants a 

 groom. Well, he does not know all the localities where grooms 

 *'most do congregate," and if he did he cannot go and 

 question all and sundry as to whether or not they are 

 *' out of livery " and wish to don the buttons. But he 

 can call at the Free Registry and state what he requires ; 

 and a groom desiring a re-engagement also calls, and the 

 keeper of the Registrjr offices hnds by investigation that 

 the groom is just the individual required, and at once takes 

 the necessary steps for securing for him the vacant situation. 

 Here, then, both these parties have been spared lo:5S of time, 



