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upon to adjudicate questions of damages resulting from the dealings of the government with its citizens. Almost all their private bills are those which, under our system of government, belong to the State and other local authorities, our work in that direction being mostly confined to bridges over navigable waters over which the nation has control. Notwithstanding, however, this immunity from that which worries us most of all, and notwithstanding Parliament sits longer than we do, Sir Albert Rollit declared in 1894 that business in the House of Commons had become more and more congested, and that in the case of nonofficial members 309 bills had been introduced, of which only twenty-three were passed, and the ministers had hardly better fortune, for as he said of them, The list of promises was long, of performances extremely short. It is curious to notice how tremendous has been the increase in the presentation of bills by members of the House. In 1863-64 in the Thirty-eight