APPENDIX.

AN ABSTRACT OF THE GAME LAWS.

THE Word Game, includes Hares, Pheasants, Partridges, Grouse, Heath and Moor Game, Black Game, and Bustards.

For killing or taking any game, or using any dog, gun, net, or other engine; for killing or taking any game on a Sunday, or Christmas-day; or killing or taking any partridge between the first of February and the first of September in any year; or any pheasant between the first of February and the first of October; or any black game between the tenth of December in any year, and the twentieth of August in the succeeding year; or in the county of Somerset or Devon; or in the New Forest in Southampton, between the teuth of December and the first of September; or any grouse between the tenth of December, and the twelfth of August; or any bustard between the first of March and the first of September; on conviction before two justices of the peace, a penalty for the first offence, not exceeding £5, and for the last, for every head of game, not exceeding £1 with costs; and for putting poison

on any ground, open or enclosed, where game usually resort, a penalty not exceeding £10.

If any person licensed to deal in game by this act, shall buy or sell, or knowingly have in his house, &c. any game after ten days from the respective days on which it shall become unlawful to kill or take such game; or, if any person, not being licensed to deal, shall buy or sell any game after ten days from the time aforesaid, or shall knowingly have in his house, &c., any game (except game kept in a mew or breeding place,) after forty days from the time aforesaid, he shall, on conviction before two justices, forfeit for every head of game so bought or sold, or found in his house, &c., not exceeding £1.

Not to affect existing laws respecting game certificates. Dispenses with qualifications, and allows every certificated person to kill game, subject to proceedings for trespass.

The lessor or landlord may enter upon land occupied under any lease or agreement made prior to the act, or authorize any other certificated person to enter upon such land to kill or take game thereon; and no such occupier, as aforesaid, may kill or take the game on such land, except when such right has been expressly granted by such lessor or agreement, or a fine shall have been taken, or such lease or agreement shall have been made for a term exceeding twenty-one years.

This act does not affect any existing or future agreements respecting game, or any rights of manor, forest, chase, or warren, nor any of his majesty's forest rights, &c.

Not to extend the rights of any cattle-gate, or rig's of common; but the lord of the manor is to have the game of the wastes.

The landlord, having the game, may authorize any certificated persons to kill it; where the landlord, &c. has a right to the game in exclusion of the occupier, the occupier shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £2., and for every head of game, not exceeding £1. for killing it, or permitting others to kill it.

Lords of manors may appoint gamekeepers, and may authorize them to seize for the use of such lords, all such dogs, nets, or other engines, for the killing or taking game as shall be used within the limits of the said manors by any uncertificated; and such lords may depute any person whatever, whether acting as a gamekeeper to, or retained as the male servant of any person, to be a gamekeeper for such manors, or for such divisions of such manors, as such lords shall think fit, and may authorize such person, as gamekeeper, to kill game for his own use, or for the use of any other person specified in such deputation, and may give all the powers of gamekeeper; and no person so appointed, and not killing any game for the use of such lords, shall be deemed to be the gamekeeper or male servant of such lords.

Every person entitled to kill game upon any lands in Wales of the clear annual value of £500. whereof he shall be seized in fee, or, as of freehold, or to which he shall otherwise be beneficially entitled in his own right, not within the bounds of any manor, or being within the same enfranchised or alienated therefrom, may appoint gamekeepers.

All appointments of gamekeepers to be registered with the clerk of the peace.

Certificated persons may sell game to licensed dealers; but no certificate with a less duty than £3. 15s. 6d. shall authorize gamekeepers to sell, except with the authority of their masters.

Justices to hold a special session yearly for granting licenses to any person being a householder, or a keeper of a shop or stall, and not being an innkeeper or victualler, or licensed to sell beer by retail, nor being the owner, or guard, or driver, of any mail-coach, or other vehicle employed in the conveyance of the mails of letters, or of any stage-coach, stage-wagon, van, or other public conveyance, nor being a carrier or higgler, nor being in the employment of any of the abovementioned persons, a license to buy game at any place from any person who may lawfully sell game by virtue of this act, and also to sell the same at one house, shop, or stall, only kept by him; provided that every person while so licensed to deal in game, shall affix to some part of the outside of the front of his house, &c. a board with his christian and surname, in legible characters, with the words licensed to deal in game, and every such license granted in the present year shall continue in force until the 15th of July, 1832, and in any succeeding year for one year.

Persons licensed to deal in game, must take out a certificate, with a duty of £2. (which shall be in force for the same period as the license), under a penalty of £20.

Collectors to make out a list of persons licensed to deal in game, and shall at all reasonable hours produce such list to any person, on making a verbal application for inspection, for one shilling.

Only one license for partners.

On commission of any offence against the act, license to be void.

Penalty for killing game without a certificate, not exceeding £5., but to be cumulative.

Penalty for destroying or taking the eggs of the grouse, swan, wild duck, teal, or widgeon, for every egg, five shillings.

Penalty for selling game without a license, and on certificated persons selling to unlicensed persons, for every head of game, not exceeding £2.

Penalty on unlicensed persons buying game, except from licensed dealers, for every head of game, not exceeding £5.

Penalty on licensed dealers, buying game from uncertificated or unlicensed persons, not exceeding £10.

Buying and selling game by any person employed on behalf of any licensed dealer, and acting in his usual course of business upon the premises, shall be deemed to be lawful, and any licensed dealer may sell any game which shall have been sent to him to be sold on account of any other licensed dealer.

If any person shall trespass in the day-time upon any land in search of game or woodcocks, snipes, quails, landrails, or conies, he shall, on conviction before a justice, forfeit not exceeding £2.; and if any persons, to the number of five or more together, shall commit any trespass, by entering in the day-time upon any land in search of game, &c., each shall forfeit not exceeding £5.; and in defence any matter may be proved which would have been a defence to an action at law at such trespass, and where the occupier of the land, not being entitled to the game, allows any person to kill it, the party entitled to the game may enforce the penalty.

Trespassers in search of game, &c., may be required by the party entitled to the game, or by any gamekeeper or servant, or any person authorized to tell their names and abodes; and, in case of refusal, or giving illusory description, or of continuing, or returning on the land, may be apprehended by the party aforesaid, or any person acting in his aid, and conveyed before a justice; penalty not exceeding £5.