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ADVANCE NOTFS AND SEA-DEBTS.

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ADVANCE NOTFS AND SEA- DEBTS. SIR E. J. REED AND THE BILL FOR AMENDING. THE LAW, Mr Graffunder, of Cardiff, has received the following letter from Sir E. J. Reed, M.P. :— Dear Mr Graffunder,—I have given very .areful attention to the proposed Bill for amend- ing the law relating to advance notes and debts of seamen. With regard to the proposed measure itself, I confess that I can see no real ob- jection to all that is askfd for in the first ten clauses of the proposed Bill. It seems to me most reasonable to give to the advance note a prescribed official form, and to give the executed note the full position of a bill of exchange. Nor oan I see why, when the shipowner has accepted the note, and it has received the endorsement of the seaman, the holder should not be fully en- titled to recover upon it, or to dea! with the note in a commercial manner. But when we come to the 11th clause of the Bill, 1 feel obliged to ask you to reconsider that part of it which would impose upon the Board of Trade the necessity of notifying its representatives in every port in the United Kingdom of the unsatisfied debt of any individual seaman. I think this is too Jarge a demand to make upon a publio depart- ment, and I will be glad if you and pour friends will kindly reconsider this latter part of the Bill, and if you agree with me, let toe have Clauses 11, 12, and 13 in a revised form. { have made a point of ascertaining whether any purpose would be served by introducing the Bill in this Session, and have come to the con- tusion that nothing but harm would result from this. The present Session is, and is universally known to be, but the dragging-out of a Session which-ought to have ended last August, and it creates a prejudice against any legislation which is attempted, or even formally proposed, under existing circumstances. The proper time to introduce it will be after the brief recess which is now to take place—indeed, after the present lon is completed, and when the new Session commence as it will no doubt do in February. —Yours very truly, January 4th, 1394. E. J. REBD."

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