THE LABOUR LAWS.

THE

LABOUR LAWS.

BY

JAMES EDWARD DAVIS,

OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW;

LATE POLICE MAGISTRATE FOR SHEFFIELD,

LONDON:

BUTTERWORTHS, 7, FLEET STREET,
Law Publishers to the Queen's most excellent Majesty.

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TO THE

RIGHT HONBLE. THE EARL OF LICHFIELD.

DEAR LORD Lichfield,

There is no one to whom a critical examination, divested of all party considerations, of the changes effected in the Labour Laws of this country could be more appropriately dedicated than to your Lordship.

I therefore hope you will permit me to connect your name with these pages, and thus give me an opportunity of saying what a lively recollection I have of hours of earnest conversation at Shugborough and elsewhere on various public questions, and how sincerely

I am

Your Lordship's faithful Servant,

THE TEMPLE,

1st October, 1875.

JAMES EDWARD DAVIS.