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burdened instrument of government, the Parliament of 

 the United Kingdom, contrives as it were from hand to 

 mouth, and almost without knowing it, to keep abreast 

 of the multifarious wants and grievances of a state of 

 society which its founders could never have imagined 



ADDENDA. 



Since this Handbook was published, an Act has been passed which regulates 

 the engagements of seamen and boys in the sea fishing service : The Merchant 

 Shipping (Fishing Boats) Act, 1883, 46 & 47 Viet. c. 41. 



The North Sea Convention has also been confirmed by the Sea Fisheries 

 Act, 1883 (46 & 47 Viet. c. 22), 



