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2. Any person who shall knowingly and wilfully take, remove or destroy, or 

 shall have in his control or possession, or shall expose or offer for sale, the egg 

 of any wild bird included in the said first schedule to this Act shall, on convic- 

 tion of any such offence before any Justice of the Peace, forfeit and pay for 

 every egg in respect of which an offence has been committed a sum not exceed- 

 ing five shillings, in addition to the costs, unless such person shall satisfy the 

 Justice hearing the complaint that such egg came into the possession of such 

 person before the passing of this Act under circumstances which would not 

 have rendered such person liable to any penalty or forfeiture under either of 

 the Acts mentioned in the' said second Schedule, or that such egg was sent to 

 these Islands by some person residing out of these Islands, or was the egg of a 

 bird kept in captivity before the passing of this Act, or of the offspring of such 

 a bird. 



3. When any person shall be found offending against this Act, or under cir- 

 cumstances from which it may reasonably be concluded that such person has 

 committed an offence against this Act, it shall be lawful for any other person 

 to require such person to give his Christian name, surname and place of abode, 

 and if such person shall, after being so required, refuse to give his real name or 

 place of abode, or shall give an untrue name or place of abode, he shall be 

 liable, on being convicted of any offence against this Act, to forfeit and pay in 

 addition to any forfeiture incurred for such offence under this Act, such sum of 

 money not exceeding ten shillings as the Justice hearing such complaint shall 

 see fit to impose. 



4. One half of every penalty or forfeiture imposed under this Act shall be 

 paid to the informer and the residue thereof into the public treasury. 



5. Any person who shall produce to any Justice of the Peace resident in the 

 parish where such person resides, or if there be no resident Justice, to any 

 neighbouring Justice, any crow dead or alive, or the egg of any crow, and shall 

 satisfy such Justice that such crow or egg has been taken, killed, or destroyed 

 in these Islands by the person producing the same, shall be entitled to receive 

 from such Justice a certificate stating the number of crows or eggs produced to 

 such Justice, in respect of which he shall be so satisfied as aforesaid, and on the 

 production of such certificate to the Eeceiver General, or Assistant Eeceiver 

 General, he shall pay out of the public treasury to the person named therein a 

 reward of four shillings for every crow, so taken or killed, and of one shilling 

 for every crow's egg, so taken or destroyed ; provided that no reward shall be 

 paid out of the public treasury unless it shall amount to four shillings at least, 

 payable at one time to the same person ; provided also that no Justice of the 

 Peace shall grant any such certificate as aforesaid unless or until the crows and 

 eggs produced to him shall in his presence have been so effectually destroyed 

 and disposed of as to prevent the same being thereafter made use of for defraud- 

 ing the public revenue. 



6. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of October next, and 

 from and after that date the Acts mentioned in the second Schedule hereto shall 

 be repealed ; except as to any prosecution for an offence against either of the 

 said Acts committed within three months before the commencement of this Act, 

 which offence may be punished within three months after the commencement of 

 this Act in like manner as if the said Acts had not been repealed. 



