ment; or the same shall have been made for more than Twenty-one Years.

Sec. 8, 9, 10. This Act not to affect any existing or future Agreements respecting Game; nor any Rights of Manor, Forest, Chase, or Warren; or any of his Majesty's Forest-Rights, or any Cattle-Gates, or Right of Common. The Lord of the Manor, therefore, is still to have the Game on the Wastes; and also the Right of giving leave to Sport on the same, to all Persons who have Game Certificates.

INCREASED PRIVILEGE OF LANDLORDS.

Sec. 11. Landlords having reserved to themselves the Right of killing the Game upon the Land, may authorize ANY other Person or Persons to Shoot, who have obtained an annual Game Certificate.

PENALTY FOR TENANT ALLOWING PEOPLE TO

SHOOT.

Sec. 12. Where the Landlord has the Right to the Game, the Tenant shall not pursue, kill, or take the same; or give Permission to any other Person so to do, under a Penalty, on Conviction before Two Justices, not exceeding 21; AND, for EVERY HEAD of Game, not exceeding 17., with Costs!!

GAMEKEEPERS AND DEPUTATIONS.

Sec. 13, 14. Lords of Manors may appoint a Gamekeeper, or Gamekeepers, and authorise them to seize all Dogs, &c., used within the Manor by uncertificated Persons.* But, since the last Edition, it was decided, in Lidster v Borrow (see 9 Adolphus and Ellis, p. 654), that a Gamekeeper authorised to seize the Dogs of unqualified Persons sporting on a Manor, by Deputation given before stat. 1 & 2 Wm. 4. c. 32, and not renewed, cannot justify seizing the Dogs of uncertificated Persons committing such Trespass since the passing of the Act. - Nor

[By this Statute, and by the repeal of the 9th of Anne, c. 25, it appears that we are now allowed any number of keepers on one manor. It is presumed, however, that all of them must have a Three Guinea and half Licence (and the 10 per cent. added to it, Now making FOUR POUNDS AND TENPENCE), except the One who holds the deputation.]

is he entitled to notice of Action under Statute 1 & 2 Wm. 4. c. 32. s. 47, on the ground that he bond fide supposed himself to be acting in pursuance of the Statute.

Lords of Manors may grant Deputations.

EXCLUSIVE PRIVILEGE FOR WALES.

Sec. 15. Persons seized in fee, or for Life, of Lands, in WALES, of the clear annual Value of 500l., and not within any Manor, Lordship, or Royalty, or enfranchised or alienated therefrom, are authorised to appoint a Gamekeeper or Gamekeepers, &c.

REGISTER OF GAMEKEEPERS.

Sec. 16. No Appointments of Gamekeepers to be valid until registered with the Clerk of the Peace.

LIBERTY TO SELL GAME.

Sec. 17. Certificated Persons may sell Game to licensed Dealers; but no Game Certificate, with a less Duty than 37. 13s. 6d., shall authorise any Gamekeeper to sell Game, except on account of his Master.

PERSONS ADMISSIBLE AS GAMEDEALERS.*

Sec. 18. The Justices of the Peace of every County, &c., shall hold a Special Session, in the present Year, between the 15th and 30th of October, and in every succeeding year in July, for granting Licenses to deal in Game; and the Majority, not being less than Two, are authorised to grant to any Householder, or Keeper of a Shop or Stall (NOT being an Innkeeper, or Victualler, or licensed to sell Beer by Retail; or the Owner, Guard, or Driver, of any Mail Coach, Stage Coach, Stage Waggon, Van, or other public Conveyance; or a Carrier, or Higgler, or in the employment of any such person), a License to buy Game of any Person who may lawfully sell it; and also to sell it at One House, Shop, or Stall, kept by him, and who shall affix, to the Front of the House,

* For an additional clause, see the 4th Section of the 2nd and 3rd of Victoria, in Appendix.

Shop, or Stall, a Board, with the Christian and Surname, together with the words, "LICENSED TO DEAL IN GAME; and every such License, granted in the present Year, shall be in force from the 1st of November till the 15th of July next; and all future Licenses shall be in force for One Year from the granting thereof.

RESTRICTIONS ON, AND DIRECTIONS TO GAME

DEALERS.

Sec. 19. Every person who shall have obtained a License, shall ALSO obtain a CERTIFICATE on Payment of 21. DUTY, in the same manner as Game Certificates; and no Person obtaining a License shall deal in Game before he shall have obtained such Certificate, under a Penalty of 201.

Sec. 20. Collectors of Assessed Taxes to make out a List of Persons who have obtained Licenses to deal in Game.

Sec. 21. In case of two or more PARTNERS in the same Shop or Stall, only ONE LICENSE is necessary.

Sec. 22. Licensed Persons, on being convicted of any Offence against this Act, to forfeit their License.

ADDITIONAL PENALTY FOR SHOOTING WITHOUT A

CERTIFICATE.

Sec. 23. Persons killing or taking any Game, or using any Dog, Gun, &c., for the purpose of searching for, or killing, or taking Game, without having a Game Certificate, subject to a Penalty not exceeding 5l., AS WELL AS TO THE PENALTY UNDER THE GAME CERTIFICATE Аст.

PENALTY FOR TAKING EGGS..

Sec. 24. Persons who, not having the Right of killing the Game upon any Land, nor having permission of the Person who has such Right, shall wilfully take out of, or destroy in the Nest, upon such Land, the Eggs of any Bird of Game, or of any Swan, Wild Duck, Teal, or Widgeon, or shall knowingly have in his possession any such Eggs so taken, shall, on Conviction by Two Justices, pay a Sum not exceeding 5s. for every Egg, with Costs.

PARTS OF THE ACT FURTHER RELATING TO LICENSED DEALERS, ETC.

Sec. 25. Persons not having a Game Certificate, or not licensed to deal in Game, who shall sell, or offer for sale, any Game, or, having a Game Certificate, shall sell, or offer for sale, any game to any Person, except a Person licensed to deal in Game, to forfeit, on Conviction by Two Justices, a sum not exceeding 21. for every Head of Game so sold, or offered for Sale.

Sec. 26. Proviso authorising Inn or Tavernkeepers to sell Game for Consumption in their own Houses, without a License, such Game having been procured from some Person licensed to deal in Game.

Sec. 27. Persons not licensed to deal in Game, who shall BUY it from any UNLICENSED Person, to be subject to a Penalty, on Conviction before Two Justices, not exceeding 5l., with costs.*

Sec. 28. Licensed Dealers, buying Game from any Person not having a Game Certificate, or a License to deal in Game, or selling, or offering for sale, any Game at his House, Shop, or Stall, without having such Board affixed, or who shall affix such Board to one House, or more Houses, &c., or shall sell any Game at any place other than his House, &c.; or if any unlicensed Person shall pretend, by affixing such Board, or by exhibiting any Certificate, or by any other Device or Pretence, to be a licensed Person, to be subject, on Conviction by Two Justices, to a Penalty not exceeding 101., with Costs.

Sec. 29. The Servants of licensed Dealers may sell Game for their Masters, and one licensed Dealer may sell on account of another.

PENALTY FOR TRESPASS.

Sec. 30. Persons trespassing on any Land, in the day time, in search or pursuit of Game, Woodcocks, Snipes, Quails, Landrails, or Conies †, on Conviction, by One Justice, subject to a Penalty not exceeding 21., with Costs; and Persons to the number of Five, or more, so trespassing, subject to a Penalty not exceeding 51. for each Person, with Costs; and the leave or license of the Occupier of the Land (if

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*For indemnity to informers. see Appendix to New Game-Laws."
Why not "Rabbits?" as "Coney " means either Rabbit or Simpleton !

not entitled to the Game) shall not be sufficient defence against the Landlord.

ARREST OF TRESPASSERS.

Sec. 31. Trespassers, in search or pursuit of Game, may be required to quit the Land, and to tell their Names and Abodes; and in case of refusal, may be arrested, and, on Conviction before One Justice, shall be subject to a Penalty not exceeding 51.: Proviso, that the Party arrested must be discharged, unless brought before a Justice within Twelve Hours: but he may, nevertheless, be proceeded against by Summons or Warrant.

INCREASED PENALTY FOR TRESPASSERS, WHEN FIVE OR MORE ARE CONCERNED.

Sec. 32-34. Where Five or more Persons shall be found with a Gun on any Land, or any of Her Majesty's Forests, &c., in the day time (viz. between the beginning of the last Hour before Sunrise, and the Expiration of the first Hour after Sunset) in pursuit of Game, Woodcocks, &c., and shall, by violence or menace, endeavour to prevent any authorised Person from approaching, for the purpose of requiring them to quit the Land, or to tell their Names or Places of Abode, each person shall be subject, on Conviction before Two Justices, to a Penalty not exceeding 51., with Costs.

PENALTY FOR TRESPASSING ON HER MAJESTY'S

FORESTS, ETC.

Sec. 33. Penalty for Trespassing on Her Majesty's Forests, Parks, Chases, or Warrens, in the Day time, on Conviction before One Justice, not exceeding 21.

EXEMPTION FROM PENALTY FOR TRESPASS, TO HUNTERS, LORDS OF MANORS, ETC.

Sec. 35. The Provisions as to Trespassers not to apply to Persons hunting or coursing with Hounds or Greyhounds, and being in fresh