MODERN FARRIER. 589 



Any person who shall shoot, or destroy in any 

 manner, any pigeon, shall, on conviction before two 

 justices, on the oath of two witnesses, or on his own 

 confession, pay, for the use of the poor, twenty shil- 

 lings for every pigeon : or be committed to gaol for 

 three months, and within one month after commit- 

 ment find sureties not to offend again. 



However, by 2 Geo. II. c. 29, one witness and 

 one justice are sufficient; and the offender is to for- 

 feit twenty shillings to the person v/ho prosecutes, 

 or be committed to the house of correction and kept 

 to hard labour for any term not exceeding three 

 calendar months, nor less than one. 



N. B. A man has a right to shoot pigeons, as well 

 as rabbits, if he find them destroying his corn. 



The 8th of Geo. I. c. 19, provides, that, if any 

 person shall be liable to any pecuniary penalty, upon 

 conviction before any justice of the peace, respecting 

 game, the prosecutor may, if he think proper, sue 

 for the whole of such penalties (2 Geo. 111.) in the 

 courts of Westminster ; and, if he recover the same, 

 shall be allowed double costs, and no part of such 

 penalty pyid to the use of the poor. But such action 

 must be brought within six months after the offence, 

 and in the name of tiie attorney-general, or some 

 officer of the stamp duties. Burn's Inst. 



Dogs. 



It is provided, by 10 Geo. III. c. 18, that if any 

 person shall steal any dog or dogs, of any kind or 

 sort vo hat soever, not only from the owner, but from 

 any person to whom such dog or dogs may have 

 been entrusted ; or shall sell, buy, receive, harbour^ 

 detain, or keep, any such dog or dogs, knowing the 

 same to be stolen, every such offender, being thereof 

 convicted, on the oath o^ one witness, or on his own 

 confession, before two justices, shall, for the first 

 offence, forfeit a sum not exceeding thirty, nor less 

 than twenty pounds, at the discretion oiP such two 



