606 THE IMPROVED ART OF FARRIERY. 



each, not to offend again in like manner. Two wit- 

 nesses are necessary in this case, as also two justices 

 of the peace. 



The same penalty (by the same act) is also inflicted 

 for taking hares with hare-pipes, snares, or any other 

 engines ; and, to convict, two witnesses and two jus- 

 tices are necessary, as in the preceding case. 



By the 22d and 23d of Charles 11. c. 25, if any 

 person be found using or setting any snare, or other 

 engine, for the purpose of taking hares, he shall make 

 the injured party such recompense as the justice of 

 the peace shall appoint, and pay down immediately 

 for the use ot the poor, a sum not exceeding ten 

 shillings ; or be committed to the house of correction 

 for a time not exceeding one month. In this case, 

 the oath of one witness, before one justice, is suffi- 

 cient ; but it must take place within a month after the 

 offence is committed. 



Rabbits and Pigeons. 



By 3d James I. no person has a right to hunt or 

 kill coneys, unless possessed of hereditaments of the 

 yearly value of forty pounds, or be worth in goods two 

 hundred pounds, or have an inclosed rabbit-ground of 

 the value of forty shillings a year. An infringement 

 of this law subjects the offender to have his dogs or 

 engines seized by any person having hereditaments 

 in fee, in tail, or for life, of the annual value of one 

 hundred pounds in his own right, or that of his wife ; 

 who is entitled to keep them for his own use. 



By 22d and 23d Charles II. c. 25, it is enacted, that 

 if any person shall, at any time, enter any ground law- 

 fully used for breeding or keeping rabbits (whether 



