412 GAME LAWS. 



The foregoing directions, with respect to notices, 

 are, I trust, all that can be required either for land- 

 lords, tenants, keepers, or their printers. 



DOGS, TRESPASS OF. 



AN unqualified person cannot use dogs for sporting, although 

 they may be bonajide the property of one who is qualified. 



If an unqualified person keeps a sporting dog, he 

 is liable to the penalty of 5l. and also to have his 

 dog seized, as becoming the property of the lord of 

 the manor. But it would, perhaps, be prudent for 

 the lord, or his keeper, first to seize the dog, before 

 he ventured to shoot or destroy him. 



It is a common trick among low farmers and 

 poachers, who keep a wirehaired greyhound, or a 

 lurcher, to cut his tail, and pass kirn off for a sheep- 

 dog. The most effectual way to prosecute an of- 

 fender of this description is, first, to lodge an in- 

 formation against him for keeping such a dog ; and, 

 after that is paid, for the lord of the manor, or his 

 keeper, to lay hands on the dog, after which he 

 becomes the property of the lord, and may then, by 

 him or his keeper, be safely taken, shot, or otherwise 

 destroyed, in any place within the limits of that 

 lord's manor. Justices of the peace, as well as lords 

 of manors, are empowered (by the 5th of Anne) to 

 take away game, dogs, nets, or other engines, from 

 persons not qualified. Having taken them, they 

 may, of course, destroy them. 



In case, however, that doubts should exist as to 



