ABSTRACT OF THE GAME LAWS. 915 



A gamekeeper being qualified in his own riglit has no occasion to 

 enter his deputation. But a keeper is not authorized, by any statute, 

 to seize game which he may find in the possession of poachers, even 

 on his own manor, though it be lawful to take their dogs, guns, and 

 other implements. 



Gamekeepers, if detected killing game off the manors for which 

 they are appointed, are liable to the same penalties as unqualified per- 

 sons ; the only difference in which case is, that a gamekeeper s dogs 

 and gun cannot be seized ; while those of an unqualified person may 

 be taken. But altliough there is no legal authority for seizing the gun 

 or dogs of a gamekeeper, should he be found heating only for game on 

 the manor of another party than that for w^hich he is iicjnsed, he is 

 liable to the penalty of twenty pounds, as having no certificate for such 

 ground, and also in five pounds more as being disqualified. 



By 43rd Geo. III., c. 23, lords of manors are enabled to appoint and 

 depute any person whatever as gamekeeper, whether acting in that 

 capacity to any other person or not, or the servant of any other per- 

 son, qualified or unqualified, to kill game within a specified manor for 

 his own use, or for the use of any other person or persons, to be speci- 

 fied in such appointment or deputation, whether qualified or not ; nor 

 is it necessary such person should be entered or paid for as the male 

 servant of the lord who thus gives the deputation ; and gamekeepers 

 thus appointed are to have the same rights and privileges as if they 

 were legally qualified and appointed as gamekeepers to the lords of 

 such manors, under any laws in force prior to the passing of this act. 



On the appointment of a new gamekeeper it is not necessary to 

 take out a new certificate ; but the name and place of abode of the new 

 keeper must be indorsed on the old certificate, by the clerk to the com- 

 missioners of the district, otherwise the penalties of the statute will be 

 incurred. 



With respect to the appointment of a gamekeeper — tlie statute of 

 21sfc Charles II., c. 25, s. 2, enacts that lords of manors or other royal- 

 ties, not under the degree of an esquire^ may appoint gamekeepers, from 

 which it is evident that persons under that degree have no legal right to 

 depute or appoint gamekeepers, and that gamekeepers appointed by 

 unqualified persons are liable to the penalties before mentioned. AYe 

 have already pointed out, at page 910, who are esquires, and other 

 qualified persons. 



Laws to prevent the improper Destruction pf Hares. — By 

 the 14th & loth Henry VIII., c. 10, the penalty for tracing and 

 killing a hare in the snow is six shillings r^nd eight pence ; and by the 

 1st James I., c. 27, three months' imprisonment, unless the offending 

 party pay to the churchwardens, for the use of the poor, twenty shil- 

 lings for every hare ; or within one month after commitment becomes 

 bound, with two sureties, in X'20 each, not to commit the like offence. 

 Two witnesses and two justices are necessary. The same penalty ap- 



