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or persons, who by law are prohibited to keep or use the same. In 

 witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 

 day of 1830. 



(Signature, and seal.} 

 Sealed and delivered m presence of ( the 

 signature of ONE witness specifying his 

 place of abode, is sufficient ) 



REFUSING TO GIVE NAMES. 



If you have not a certificate to produce, at the time it is called for, 

 your Christian and surnames, and place of abode, may be demanded, 

 by any assessor, &c. &c. (as before mentioned); and penalty for 

 refusing them } or giving a false name, is 20/. 



GAME. 



Hares may be killed at any time of the year ! ! 



Pheasants from the 1st of October to the 1st of February Par- 

 tridges, from the 1st of September to the 1st of February. Penalty, 

 for killing them at other times, 51. 



Grouse, from the 12th of August to the 10th of December 

 Black game (in Devonshire, Somersetshire, and the New Forest), 

 from the 1st of September to the 10th of December Black game 

 (everywhere else) from the 20th of August to the 10th of December 

 Bustard, from the 1st of September to the 1st of March. Penalty, 

 for killing at other times, 20/., or not less than 10/., for i\\ejtrst 

 offence ; and, for every subsequent offence, 30/., or not less than 20/. 



Any person taking or killing game, on Sundays, or Christmas 

 days, to forfeit, for the first offence, not more than 20/., nor less than 

 101. 5 for the second offence, from 30/. to 20/. j arid, for the third and 

 every subsequent offence, 50/. , 



An unqualified person, killing, can only be convicted of one penalty 

 in a day: That is, an unqualified person, or even a poacher, would 

 have no more to pay for killing fifty head of game, in the same day, 

 than he would for killing one. Though the poacher, or the un- 

 qualified person, would be liable to the other penalties, viz. 51. each 

 for every head of game which he sold*, offered for sale, or which 



* Even a qualified person would be liable to the penalty of 51. for 

 each head of game that he sold) or offered for sale. 



