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before such Sessions, and shall also either remain in custody until the Sessions, or within such Three days enter into a recognizance, with a sufficient surety, before a Justice of the Peace, conditioned personally to appear at the said Sessions and to try such Appeal, and to abide the 5 Judgment of the Court thereupon, and to pay such costs as shall be by the Court awarded; and upon such notice being given, and such recognizance being entered into, the Justice before whom the same shall be entered into shall liberate such person, if in custody; and the Court at such Sessions shall hear and determine the matter of the Appeal, 10 and shall make such order therein, with or without costs to either party, as to the Court shall seem meet; and in case of the dismissal of the Appeal, or the affirmance of the Conviction, shall order and adjudge the offender to be dealt with and punished according to the conviction, and to pay such costs as shall be awarded, and shall, if necessary, issue 15 process for enforcing such Judgment.

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And be it Enacted, That no Summary Conviction in pursuance No Certiorari, of this Act, or Adjudication made on appeal therefrom, shall be quashed for want of form, or be removed by certiorari or otherwise into any of His Majesty's superior courts of record; and that no Warrant of 20 commitment shall be held void by reason of any defect therein, provided it be therein alleged that it is founded on a Conviction, and there be a good and valid conviction to sustain the same.

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Provided always, and be it Enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall prevent any Person from proceeding by way of Civil Action to recover Damages in respect of any Trespass upon his land, whether committed in pursuit of Game or otherwise, in as full and ample manner as he might have done before the passing of this Act, save and except that where any proceedings shall have been instituted under the provisions of this Act against any person for or in respect of any Trespass, no Action at law shall be maintainable for the same trespass by any person at whose instance or with whose concurrence or assent such proceedings shall have been instituted, but that such proceedings shall in such case be a bar to any such Action, and may be given in evidence under the General Issue.

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Venue in Proceedings against

persons act

ing under this Act;

AND for the protection of Persons acting in the execution of this Act, BE it Enacted, That all Actions and Prosecutions to be commenced against any person for any thing done in pursuance of this Act, shall be laid and tried in the county where the fact was committed, and shall be commenced within Sir calendar months after the fact committed, and not otherwise; and notice in writing of such Action, and of the Notice of cause thereof, shall be given to the Defendant One calendar month at least before the commencement of the Action; and in any such Action General the Defendant may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the special matter in evidence, at any trial to be had thereupon; and no Tender of Plaintiff shall recover in any such Action if tender of sufficient amends C

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Act not to extend to Scotland or Ireland.

shall have been made before such Action brought, or if a sufficient sum of money shall have been paid into Court after such Action brought, by or on behalf of the Defendant.

And be it Enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend to Scotland or Ireland.

of

SCHEDULES.

SCHEDULE (A.)

FORM OF LICENSE.

AT a Special Session of the Justices of the Peace of the county [or, riding, &c. as the case may be] acting for the

division of [or otherwise, as the case may be] in the said county, holden

at

day of We being

on the

in the said

in the year

Justices acting for the said

assembled

&c.

at the said Special Session, Do hereby authorize and empower A. B. of
[here insert the name, description, and place of residence,
and, if more than one in partnership, say C. D. of, &c. and E. F. of,
being partners'] being a householder [or, householders] [or
keeper (or keepers) of a shop or stall, as the case may be] to buy Game
from any person authorized to sell Game by virtue of an Act passed in
the First and Second years of the reign of King WILLIAM the Fourth,
intituled, "An Act to amend the Laws in England relative to Game;"
and we do also authorize and empower the said A. B. [or, C. D. and
E. F. being partners] to sell at his [or, their] house [shop, or stall] any
Game so bought, provided that the said A. B. [or, C. D. and E. F. being
partners] shall affix to some part of the outside of the front of his
[or, their] house [shop, or stall] and shall there keep, a Board having
thereon in clear and legible characters his Christian Name and Surname,
[or, their Christian Names and Surnames] together with the following

words, "Licensed to deal in Game."

This License will expire on

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SCHEDULE (B.)

FORM OF CERTIFICATE to be issued by Clerks of Commissioners of Assessed Taxes, to every Person licensed to deal in Game.

RECEIVED from A. B. [or, C. D. and E. F. being partners] residing at [parish, township or place] in the county of

(in exchange for this Certificate) a Receipt under the hand of [G. H.] one of the Collectors of Assessed Taxes for the said [parish, &c.] for the Sum of being the Duty chargeable on the said A. B. [or, C. D. and E. F. being partners] in respect of his [or, their] License to deal in Game.

Certified this

year

day of

in the

in pursuance of an Act passed in the First and Second years of the reign of King WILLIAM the Fourth, intituled, "An Act to " amend the Laws in England relative to Game."

This Certificate will expire on

(Signed)

Clerk to the Commissioners of Assessed Taxes

for the Division of

in the County of

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Amend the Laws in England relative to Game.

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N. B.-The Clauses marked (A. to F.) were added by the Committee.

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Repeal of st. 1. c. 13.

13 Ric. 2.

c. 6.

HEREAS it is expedient to repeal the Laws in that part Preamble. of the United Kingdom called England, relative to Game, and to substitute other provisions in lieu thereof; Be it therefore Enacted, by The KING's most Excellent MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, THAT so much of a Statute made in the thirteenth year of the reign of King Richard the Second, as relates to such persons as shall not have or keep any Greyhound, Hound or other dog to hunt, and shall not use 10 fyrets, heys, nets, hare pipes, cords, or other engines to take or destroy hares, conies or other gentlemen's Game; and so much of a Statute made in the twenty-second year of the reign of King Edward the Fourth, 22 Edw. 4. as relates to the having any mark or game of Swans; and an Act passed in the eleventh year of the reign of King Henry the Seventh, intituled, 11 Hen. 7. "An Act against taking of Feasaunts and Partridges;" and an Act c. 17. passed in the nineteenth year of the same reign, intituled, "De Laqueis 19 Hen. 7. et Retibus Venantium;" and an Act passed in the fourteenth and c. 11. fifteenth years of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, intituled, "An Act "against tracing of Hares;" and an Act passed in the twenty-fifth year 20 of the same reign, intituled, "An Act against Destruction of Wild 25 Hen. 8. "Fowl;" and an Act passed in the thirty-third year of the same reign, intituled, "An Act concerning Cross Bows and Hand Guns ;" and an 33 Hen. 8. Act passed in the twenty-third year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, intituled, "An Act for the Preservation of Pheasants and Part-23 Eliz. c. 10, ridges;" and an Act passed in the second year of the reign of King A

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James

14 & 15 H. 8.

c. 10.

G. 11.

c. 6.

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