SECTION YIII 



ABSTRACT OF THE GAME LAWS. 



The last act relative to game was entitled " An Act to amend tl«e 

 laws in England relative to Game ; " and was ])assed in the .1 & 2 

 year of the reign of William lY. cap. 32, 5th October, 1831. 



Game defined. — The word " Game" includes hares, pheasants, 

 partridges, grouse, heath or moor-game, black-game, and bustards; 

 woodcock, snipe, landrail, liare, and rabbit. And the word " lord of 

 the manor, lordship, or royalty," throughout the act includes a lady 

 of the same respectively. — 1 & 2 Wm. IV. c. 32. 



Days on which Game shall not be killed. — Every person 

 convicted of killing game on a Sunday, or Christmas-day, shall forfeit 

 and pay for every such offence, a sum of money not exceeding live 

 pounds.— I & 2 AVm. lY. 



Season for Hunting and Killing Game. — The season for shoot- 

 ing grouse, (called red- game,) or ptarmigan, commences on the 12th of 

 August, and terminates on the 10th of December. Heath-fowl, or black- 

 game shooting begins on the 2oth of August, and ends on the 10th of 

 December. Partridge- shooting is permitted from the 1st of September 

 to the 1st of March. Pheasant-shooting commences on the 1st of Oc- 

 tober, and ends on the 1st of February. Bustard-shooting begins on 

 the 1st of September, and concludes on the 1st of March. Possessin 

 any of the above birds during the close season (with the exception of 

 such as may be kept tame, or in a mew or breeding-place) subjects the 

 party, on conviction before two justices, to a penalty of not more than 

 twenty shillings for every head of such game so taken, as such justices 

 shall think fit, together with the costs of conviction. 



In New Forest, shooting heath-fowl is not permitted until the 1st 

 of September. 



Every person convicted of laying any poisonous ingredient on any 

 grounds, enclosures, or highways where game resort to. is liable to a 

 penalty of ten pounds. 



The occupiers of grouse-mountains are forbidden to burn heath, 

 furze, &c., between tl;e 2nd of February and the 24th of June, upon 

 pain of being committed to the house of correction, there to be whipped 

 and kept to hard labour for a period not exceeding one month, nor less 

 than ten days. 



