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place only, kept by the person so licensed ; provided 

 that such person keep on the outside of the front of 

 his house, &c. in legible characters, his christian and 

 surname, with the words, " licensed to deal in game ;^* 

 such license to continue in force one year after the 

 granting thereof. Persons licensed to deal in game 

 must take out a certificate, with a duty of two pounds. 



The collectors are to make out a list of persons 

 licensed to deal in game : one license is sufficient 

 where they are partners in any firm ; and licences be- 

 come void, in case of any conviction. 



The penalty for selling game without a license, and 

 on certificated persons selling to unlicensed dealers, is 

 forty shillings and costs. 



Innkeepers may, without any license to deal in 

 game, sell game for consumption in their own houses, 

 such game having been procured from some licensed 

 person, and not otherwise. 



The possession of game is illegal in dealers in ten 

 days, and in other persons in forty days, after the ex- 

 piration of the season. 



PARTICULAR LAWS TO PREVENT THE IMPROPER DE- 

 STRUCTION OF HARES. 



The act of 14th and 15th Henry VIII. c. 10, inflicts 

 a penalty of six shillings and eightpence for tracing 

 and killing a hare in the snow. By the 1 st of James 

 I. c. 27, three months' imprisonment is inflicted on 

 the oflender for either tracing or coursing a hare in the 

 snow ; unless the oflending party pay to the church- 

 wardens, for the use of the poor, twenty shillings for 

 every hare, or within one month after commitment 

 becomes bound with two sureties, in twenty pounds 



