586 MODERN FARRIER. 



witness shall be a sufficient conviction ; half the 

 penalty to the infornner, and the other half to the 

 poor of the parish ; to be distrained for, if necessary ; 

 and, in default thereof the offender to be committed 

 to the house of correction for three months; and for 

 the second and every subsequent offence, four months. 



The same act allows any person buying and selling 

 game, to inform against any other person so offend- 

 ing; to have the same benefit as any other informer; 

 and be discharged himself from penalties. 



The lord of the manor, or justice of the peace, 

 may also take to his own use any game which shall 

 be found in the custody or possession of any unqua- 

 lified person ; unless protected by a qualified person. 



Finally, if any person, whether qualified or un- 

 qualified, shall sell or expose for sale any hare, phea- 

 sant, partridge, or moor or heath-game, every such 

 person shall be liable to the penalty of five pounds 

 for every hare, &c. on the oath of one witness ; half 

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

 where the offence w as committed : the penalty to 

 be levied by distress, if necessary ; and, for the want 

 thereof, the offender to be committed to the house 

 of correction for three months for the first, and four 

 months for every subsequent offence. And, if any 

 of the above mentioned game be found in the house, 

 shop, or possession of any poulterer, salesman, fish- 

 monger, cook, or pastry-cook, the same shall be 

 deemed the act of exposing them to sale. 



Particular Laws to prevent the improper Destruction 



of Hares. 



The act of 14 and 15 Henry VIII. c. 10, inflicts a 

 penalty of six shillings and eight-pence for tracing 

 and killing a hare in the snow. By the 1st of James 

 I. c. 27, three months' imprisonment is inflicted on 

 the offender for either tracing or coursing a hare in 

 the snow; unless the offending party pay to the 

 churchwardens, for the use of the poor, twenty shil- 



