456 FOREIGN STATUTES. 



lobster fishery under license, for tlie reason, as stated l)y tbe Minister of 

 Marine and Fisheries in the course of debate, that tlie industry is in 

 imminent danger of extermination through excessive and indiscrimi- 

 nate fishing.' 



IV. Very extensive powers are conferred upon the owners of property 

 and upon officers of the law in Great Britain to aid the enforcement of 

 statutes designed to protect game, birds, and fish. 



Thus the owner of game can warn off poachers by day ^ or night,^ and 

 require them to tell their names and addresses, and if they refuse or 

 return on the laud, to arrest them and take them before a justice. Game 

 recently killed may be seized and taken by iorce from trespassers by 

 iihe owner for his own use,^ and under the decisions of the English House 

 of Lords the owner can seize game which has been illegally caught on 

 his land, even when in the hands of an innocent purchaser, for value.^ 



Gamekeei)ers are permitted to seize dogs, nets, and engines found on 

 the owner's land which belong to persons not licensed to kill game," and 

 a dog or implement so seized becomes thereby forfeited to such owner, 

 who may destroy it or not, as he thinks fit.' 



By statute any one who, without right, hunts deer on inclosed ground 

 is guilty of felony, and any one who commits a second offense of any kind 

 relating to deer, whether similar to the first offense or not, is also guilty 

 of felony.** 



By "The Poaching Prevention Act, 1862," ^ any constable may stop 

 and search on the highway any person suspected of having been unlaw- 

 lully on land in search of game, and having game, nets, or guns in his 

 possession, and also persons suspected of having aided and abetted 

 such poaching; and he may also stop and search any cart suspected of 

 containing such game or implements, and seize and detain them, and 

 proceed against the offender before a justice, whereupon conviction he 

 shall be liable to a fine and the forfeiture of the game. 



The fisheries of tlie United Kingdom and Ireland are protected 

 through the instrumentality of a series of Fishery Boards, of which there 

 are in England three sets at the present time, viz, the Sabnon Fishery 

 Boards, under the acts of 1865 and 1873 ;!" the Trout and Char Fishery 

 Boards, under the act of 1878 ; '^ and the Freshwater Fishery Boards, un- 

 der the acts of 1878 and 1884,'^ 



"The Fishery Board (Scotland) Act, 1882," estabhshed a fishery board 

 ibr Scotland to take cognizance of everything relating to the coast and 

 deep-sea fisheries of Scotland.'-' 



The Revised Statutes of the Dominion of Canada provide that fishery 

 officers shall be appointed by the Governor in Council, and very large 

 ])()wers are entrusted to that olficial to make and alter regulations for 

 tlie sea-coast and inland fisheries, which have the same force and effect 

 as if enacted by the Canadian Parliament." 



' Debates of House of Commons of Canada, 1892, vol. 24, page 119. 



n and 2 Wm. IV, c. 32, Sec. 31. 



">9 Geo. IV, c. 69, Sec. 2. * 



n and 2 Wm. IV, c. 32, Sec. 36; for Scotland, 2 and 3 Wm. IV, c. 68, Sec. 5. 



Hilades v. Higj^s, 11 H. L. C, 621. 



n and 2 Wm. IV, c. 32, Sec. 13; 24 and 25 Vict., c. 96, Sees. 15, 16. 



' Kingsworth v. Brettou, 5 Taunt., 416. 



S24 and 25 Vict., c. 96, Sees. 12, 13. 



« 25 and 26 Vict., c. 114, Sec. 2. 



i"28 and 29 Vict., c. 121, Sees. 4, 5, 19, 38; 36 and 37 Vict., c. 71, Sees. 5-8. 



1141 and 42 Vict., c. 39, Sec. 6. 



'HI and 42 Vict., c. 39, Sec. 6; 47 and 48 Vict., c. 11, Sec. 2. 



i'45 and 46 Vict., c. 78. 



»< li. S., c. 95, Sees. 2, 16. 



