THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



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William the Fourth, chapter o'^ sluill be conslrued and 

 read in hke munner ; and that wherever in tlie said last- 

 mentioned Act the dutj' of three pounds thirteen shillings 

 and sixpence on a game certificate is mentioned the duty oi 

 three pounds on a licence to kill game shall he read in lieu. 

 Vn. Any person having the right to kill game on any 

 lands in England or Scotland, and being charged or liable 

 to be charged to the Assessed Tax on Servants in respect 

 of any gamekeeper, hy whomsoever deputed or appointed, 

 and whether deputed or appointed or not, and any person 

 granting a deputation or appointment in Great Britain to llie 

 servant of any other person who shall he duly charged to the 

 Assessed Tax on Servants in respect of such servant, whether 

 as gamekeeper or in any other capacity, with power and 

 authority to take or kill any game, shall respectively be at 

 liberty to take out a licence to kill game on behalf of any 

 such servant, on payment of tlie duty of two pounds for the 

 3'ear ending on the Fifth day of April, and such licence sliall 

 exempt the servant named therein during his continuance 

 in the same capacity and service, and on his (juitting sueli 

 service shall also exempt any servant who shall succeed him 

 in the same service and capacit), or who shall succeed to 

 the deputation of the same nianor or royalty or lands within 

 the year for which the licence is granted, during the re- 

 mainder of such year ; and no such servant on whose behalf 

 a licence shall have been duly obtained as aforesaid shall be 

 required to obtain a licence for himself, or be liable to any 

 penalty by reason of not obtaining a licence in his own 

 name. 



VIII. Every such licence to kill game taken out on behalf 

 of any such servant as aforesaid shall, upon the revocation of 

 any such deputation or appointment, or on his quitting the 

 service of the master by whom such licence shall have been 

 taken out, be from thenceforth of no further effect as to the 

 person named therein as such servant, or so deputed or ap- 

 pointed as aforesaid ; b>it if within the jear for which such 

 licence was granted the said master, on the quitting of such 

 servant, shall employ another servant as gamekeeper in his 

 stead, or the person by whom such deputation or appointment 

 was made shall on the revocation thereof make a new deputa- 

 tion or appoiatment to any person in his service, or in the 

 service of the same master by whom such licence shall have 

 been taken out, and who shall have been charged or be charge- 

 able to the said assessed tax on servants as aforesaid, the 

 officer by whom such licence was granted, or the proper officer 

 appointed by the Commissioners in that behalf, shall renew 

 such licence for the remainder of that year, on behalf of the 

 fresh servant or the person so newly appointed, as the case 

 may be, without payment of any further duty, by indorsing 

 on such licence the name and place of abode of the said last- 

 mentioned servant, or the person to whom such last- 

 mentioned deputation or appointment shall have been 

 granted, and declaring the same to be a renewed Ucence free 

 of duty. 



IX. Provided always. That no such licence taken out for or 

 on behalf of any person, being such servant or acting under a 

 deputation or appointment as aforesaid, shall be available for 

 such person in any suit or prosecution where proof shall be 

 given of his doing or having done any act for which a licence 

 is required under this act on land on which his master had 

 not a right to kill game. 



X. If any person shall be discovered doing any act whatever 

 in Great Britain in respect whereof a licence to kill game is 

 required under this act, by any officer of Inland Revenue, or 

 by any lord or gamekeeper of the manor, royalty, or lands 

 wherein such person shall then be, or by any person having 

 dnly taken out a proper licence to kill game under this act or 

 by the owner, landlord, lessee, or occupier of the land on 

 which such person shall then be, it shall be lawful for such 

 officer or other person aforesaid to demand and require from 

 the person so acting the production of a licence to kill game 

 issued to him ; and the person so acting is hereby required to 

 produce such licence to the person so demanding the produc- 

 tion thereof, and to permit him to read the same, and (if be 

 shall think fit) to take a copy thereof or of any part thereof ; 

 or in case no such licence shall be produced to the person de- 

 manding the same as aforesaid, then it shall be lawful for the 

 person having made such demand to require the person so 

 acting forthwith to declare to him his Christian and surname 

 and place of residence, and the place at which he shall have 

 taken out such licence ; and if such person shall, after such 



dcniiiid made, wilfully refute to produce and aiiow a licer.ce 

 to kill game issued to him, or in default thereof as aforesaid 

 to give to the person so demanding the same his Christian 

 and surname and place of residence, and the place at which he 

 shall have taken out such licence, or if he shall produce any 

 false or fictitious licence, or give any false or fictitious name 

 or place, or if he shall refuse to permit any licence wbi»h he 

 may produce to be read, or a copy thereof or of any part 

 thereof to be taken, he .shall forfeit the sum of twenty 

 pounds. 



XI. If any person, having obtained a licence to kill game 

 under this act, shall be convicted of any offence under Section 

 Thirty of the said Act of the First and Second Years of King 

 William the Fourth, Chapter Thirty-two, or under the Act of 

 the Second and Third Years of King William the Fourth, 

 Chapter Sixty-eight, the said licence shall thenceforth be null 

 and void. 



XII. The Commissioners of Inland Revenue shall, when 

 and as they shall see fit, cause lists of the names and resi- 

 dences of the several persons to or for whom licences to kill 

 game have been granted under this act to be inserted in such 

 newspapers or published in such other manner as to them 

 shall seem proper, distinguishing in such lists the persona 

 acting under any deputation, appointment, or authority from 

 others, and the manors, royalties, or lands for which deputa- 

 tions, appointments, or authorities have been granted, and also 

 distinguishing the rate of duty paid for such licences. 



XIII. All the clauses and provisions of the two acts passed 

 respectively in the first and second years of King WilUiam 

 IV., chapter 32, and the second and third years of her present 

 Majesty, chapter 35, relating to the granting of licences by 

 justices of the peace to deal in game, and to the holding of 

 special sessions by such justices in their respective divisions 

 or districts for the purpose of granting such licences, and also 

 all the clauses, provisions, and penalties contained in the said 

 acts or either of them relating to dealers in game, and to the 

 selling of game, either by or to such dealers or others, shall, 

 so far as the same are consistent with the express provisions 

 of this act, and as the same are altered or amended by this 

 act, extend to and he of full force and effect tn and throughout 

 the whole of the United Kingdom, and shall be observed, ap- 

 plied, and enforced as if the same, so altered or amended and 

 made Iconsistent with the express provisions of this act, had 

 been herein repeated and specially enacted : provided always, 

 that no person shall be authorized to sell game to any licensed 

 dealer unless he shall have taken out a three pounds' licence 

 under this act. 



XIV. Every person who shall have obtained any licence to 

 deal in game from the justices of the peace, under the provi- 

 sions of the said two several acts in the preceding clause men- 

 tioned, shall annually, and during the continuance of such 

 licence, and before he shall be empowered to deal in game 

 under such licence, obtain a further licence to deal in game 

 under;this act,;on payment of the duty hereby charged thereon ; 

 and if any person obtaining a licence from the said justices as 

 aforesaid shall purchase or sell or otherwise deal in game be- 

 fore he shall obtain a licence to deal in game under the pro- 

 visions of this act, he shall forfeit the sum of twenty pounds. 



XV. Provided always, That no licence to deal in game shall 

 be granted under the provisions of this act to any peison. ex- 

 cept upon the production of a licence for the like purpose duly 

 granted to him by the justices of the peace, as aforesaid, and 

 then in force ; and every officer appointed or authorized to 

 grant Ucencea to deal in game under this act shall in each year 

 make out a list, to he kept in his possession, containing the 

 name and place of abode of every person to whom he shall 

 have granted or issued a licence to deal in game under this 

 act, and such officer shall at all seasonable hours produce such 

 list to any person making application to inspect the same, and 

 shall be entitled to demand and receive for such inspection the 

 sura of one shilling. 



XVI. All licences and certificates to kill game and to deal 

 in game respectively, under the provisions of this act, shall be 

 in such form as the Commissioners of Inland Revenue shall 

 from time to time provide in that behalf, and shall denote the 

 amount of duty charged thereon respectively, and shall be 

 granted, signed, and issued at the chief office of Inland Re- 

 venue in London, Edinburgh, and Dublin respectivelj^ and by 

 the several supervisors of Excise in their respective districts, 

 or by such other officers of Inland Revenue and at such places 



