406 GAME LAWS. 



TAME PIGEONS, OR HOUSE DOVES. 



UNLESS they are your own property, or you are desired by the 

 lawful owner to kill them, the penalty for shooting them is 20s. 

 for each pigeon. (Under statute of 1 Jac. I.) 



For shooting at pigeons, with intent to kill, the penalty would 

 (by 2 Geo. II.) be the same as for killing one pigeon, viz. 20*. 

 InTormations for these offences must be commenced within two 

 months. 



" But" (says a treatise on the game laws), " not- 

 withstanding the provisions of the above acts, it has 

 been determined, that the owner of land may kill 

 such pigeons as he shall find thereon devastating his 

 corn." But, after having killed the pigeons, he must 

 not take them away. 



DOGS. 



^Annual duties on, from the 5th of April, 1826, to the 5th of 

 April, 1827.] 



ALL sporting dogs * (including lurchers and terriers, or other 

 dogs, where two or more are kepi), 14*. 

 For other dogs, where only one is kept, 8*. 



The duties on dogs are not increased, in proportion 

 to the number kept. 



DOGS EXEMPTED FROM DUTY. 



WHELPS, which are not six months old, at the time of return- 

 ing your list for taxes. 



* Except greyhounds, for which the duty is M. for each dog ; 

 and a pack of hounds compounded for, the duty on which is 36/. 



