GAME LAWS. 411 



FORM OF A GENERAL NOTICE, 



WHICH, after all, may be the best to answer every 

 purpose. 



The following printed notice, signed by yourself 

 and all your tenants, will save much trouble, and be 

 found extremely useful ; as it may be read, or even 

 shown by any common labourer. By this means, 

 therefore, your carters, your shepherds, or the most 

 humble person in or out of your service, may at all 

 times be empowered to warn off immediately any 

 stranger, whom they might find trespassing on your 

 estate. 



Let the person (while merely showing the notice) 

 say: 



Sir j here is my authority, and I accordingly forbid you from 

 trespassing on this estate. 



FORM OF THE NOTICE. 



We, the undersigned, do hereby authorise 



, the bearer of this notice, to warn off all persons 

 whom he may find shooting, or otherwise trespassing, on any 

 of the lands [or waters] in our respective occupations, situate 

 in the parish [or parishes] of ? 



in the county [or counties] of : and we 



do declare, that we will prosecute, as a wilful trespasser, any 

 person whomsoever continuing or coming upon our lands after 

 having been enjoined to quit by the said 



, pursuant to this our notice. 

 Signed by us, this day of , 1826. 



Here follow the signatures of the landholder and all his 

 tenants. 



