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wife's right, of the clear annual value of one hundred 

 pounds ; or leasehold property for life, or a term of 

 ninety-nine years, or longer, of the clear yearly value 

 of one hundred and fifty pounds, (that is, assessed 

 to that amount, and clear of mortgage or other in- 

 cumbrance,) are declared ineligible to have or keep 

 Jbi^ themselves or any other person, guns, bows, grey- 

 hounds, setting-dogs, ferrets, lurchers, nets, hare- 

 pipes, gins, snares, or other engines for the taking 

 or killing rabbits, hares, pheasants, partridges, or 

 other game.' 



This statute is merely prohibitory, and does not 

 subject the party to any pecuniary penalty, but 

 merely authorizes the seizure of the dogs and engines. 

 But by the act of the 5th of Anne, c. 14, any person 

 guilty of an infraction of this law is liable to a penalty 

 of five pounds, one half of which sum is to be given 

 to the informer, and the other half to the poor of the 

 parish, to be levied by distress ; the offender may be 

 sent to the house of correction for three months for 

 the first offence, and for every subsequent offence 

 four months. The qualifications of Charles II. and 

 the penalty of Anne, are the modern practice, and 

 may be summed up in a few words, thus : — Pur- 

 suing, or killing game, without the recited qualifi- 

 cations, subjects the offender to a penalty of five 

 pounds (supposing him to have a certificate ; if he 

 has no certificate, he is liable to an additional penalty 

 of twenty pounds.) And by 9 Anne, c. 25, s. 3, a 

 disqualified person is liable to the same penalty for 

 having game in his possession, unless it is ticketed 

 by a qualified person. 



Exceptions to the general Rule of Q_ualiJicatio7i. 



By the same statute of Charles, the following are 

 qualified from the circumstances of their birth, 

 though they may possess no property whatever, viz. 

 the son and heir apparent of an aesquire, or other 



