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ought to be given for the vessels to go out and return, and 

 their owners and crews to receive their money without 

 let or hindrance, subject simply to a right of appeal in 

 cases of dispute. Whatever their aim may have been, 

 the framers of these draft clauses drew them up without 

 any (or indeed very little) practical knowledge of the 

 details of the fishing industry, which must be thoroughly 

 understood before any regulations can be applied thereto, 

 having for their object the promotion of its prosperity. 

 The provisions the Merchant Shipping Act proposed to be 

 incorporated, were drawn up under the advice of practical 

 cargo-ship sailors, with the intention that they should be 

 applied to sea-going cargo-ships, which proceed on voyages 

 of considerable duration from the time of their leaving and 

 returning to their port, and are commanded and manned 

 by a very different class of persons. Local coasting vessels 

 and vessels in the home trade are exempt from the restric- 

 tions and hindrances proposed to be imposed by the draft 

 clauses, how much more therefore ought fishing vessels to 

 be exempt ? 



It will now be well just to consider the forms of inden- Apprentices' 



indentures. 



ture for apprentices. 



In May 1855, the Board of Trade sanctioned a form of 

 Ordinary Apprentices Indenture marked I. ; this has been 

 in general use at most ports up to the present time, and 

 has answered very well, and by slight alteration will suit 

 for either an indoor or an outdoor apprentice. A change 

 being deemed necessary, the Board of Trade in May 

 1880 sanctioned a fresh form of indenture, which is gene- 

 rally known as the Grimsby indenture. 



In Clause I, an improvement is introduced which 

 compels the apprentice's master to be the holder of not less 

 than one-eighth share of a fishing vessel ; this is done to 



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