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this committee, that the lay- own- 

 ers of impropriate tithes, being 

 tenants for life and for years, de- 

 terminable on a life or lives, or 

 tenants in tail, or tenants in fee, 

 subject to be determined by exe- 

 cutory devise or sliifting use, 

 have the like power of leasing" 

 such tithes for any term not ex- 

 ceeding 14 years. 



14. That it is the opinion of 

 this committee, that a like power 

 be given to all cori)orate bodies, 

 whether lay or Sjjirituul, being 

 owners of impropriate tithes. 



1.5. That it is the opinion of 

 this committee, that no lease shall 

 be valid to bind the successor, 

 reversioner, or remainder-man, 

 wliere any other consideration is 

 given than the annual tithe-rent 

 or composition declared in such 

 lease. 



16. That it is the opinion of 

 this committee, that the power 

 of leasing tithes, as it at present 

 by law exists, should not be taken 

 away or diminished. 



June IS, 1816. 



Report front the Comrniitee on the 

 Game Laws. 



The Committee appointed to take 

 into consideration tlie Laws re- 

 lating to Game, and to report 

 their observations and opinion 

 thereupon from time to time to 

 the House, have considered 

 tiie matters to them referred, 

 and agreed upon the f.^llowing 

 Report : 



Your committee, in iiivesti- 

 gating tliisimportant subject, pro- 

 ceeded to tiie consideration of the 

 pieeent existing laws foi- the pre- 

 servation of g:iinc ; their adequacy 



to their professed object ; their 

 policy anti justice ; and their ef- 

 fects upon the habits and morals 

 of the lower orders of the com- 

 munity. In considering the ex- 

 isting state of the law upon this 

 subject, their attention was na- 

 turally directed, in the lirst place, 

 to its state in the early periods of 

 the common law; and in that 

 your committee finds concurrent 

 and undistmbed authorities for 

 contemplating g-anie as the ex- 

 clusive light of the proprietor of 

 the land raiione soli. In a law of 

 Canute's (vide 4th institutes, 

 p. "^30,) your committee find that 

 he thus expresses himself : Pro:- 

 terea autem cmicedo id in propriis 

 ipsiiis preediis quisque tarn in agris 

 qunm in sijlvis excilct agitetque fc- 

 ras ; and in Blackstnne II, p. 415, 

 Sit qvdibet homo di^nus venatione 

 sua in syli-ti et in n^ris sifu propiis 

 et in dominio suo. in the pream- 

 ble of the statutes 1 1th Hen. VII. 

 c. 17, a pai'liamcntary recogni- 

 tion of the common law is most 

 distinctly made, and in uneo,ui- 

 vocal language. It states, that 

 persons of little substance desti-oy 

 pheasants and partridges upon 

 the lordships, manors, lands, and 

 tenements of divers owners and 

 posscssioners of the same, witli- 

 out license, consent, or agree- 

 ment of the same possessioners, 

 by which the same lose not only 

 their pleasure and disport, that 

 they, their fiiends, and servants 

 should have about haAvking, hunt- 

 ing, and taking of the same, but 

 . also they lose the profit and avail 

 that should giow to their house- 

 hqld, &c. 



In the 4th Institutes, p. S04^, 

 it is laid down, that seeing the 

 wild beasts do belong to the pilr- 



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