GAME LAWS. 



\Query if the following are not become obsolete from 

 non usage ?"] 



Any wildfowl, crane, bustard (and one year's imprison- 

 ment for the offence) . . .' . . 018 



Bittern, heron, shoveller . * V j . 8 



GAME FOUND IN POSSESSION OF UNQUALIFIED 

 PERSONS, AND PENALTY FOR BUYING AND SELL- 

 ING GAME. 



\_See " Game" as to Poachers. ] 



Game found in possession of unqualified persons is liable to be 

 seized, and the offender to pay 5 1. for every head: one half to the 

 poor, the other to the informer, who is entitled to it, even though 

 he should have been an accomplice, and will, by turning evidence, 

 escape all penalties. 



Unqualified persons may have game in their possession, provided 

 it be given to them, or intrusted to their care, by one who is duly 

 qualified. 



A qualified person cannot offer game for sale, under the penalty 

 of 51. And, by 58 Geo. III. c. 75, the penalty for buying game is also 

 51. : one half to the informer, and the other half to the poor of the 

 parish ; or the whole to the informer, if recovered by action at law. 

 The time of limitation in either case is six calendar months, after the 

 offence committed. Persons buying, or selling, or unlawfully having 

 game in their possession, informing against another, are discharged 

 from penalties, unless there is a prosecution pending. Moor, heath- 

 game, or grouse, included in this act. 



OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS KILLING GAME. 



\_By mutiny Act " IN OR NEAR" where they are quartered. 

 N. B. This Article of War extends, also, to fish and poultry.] 



Killing or taking game, without leave from the lord of the manor, 

 under his hand and seal, subject to penalties as follow : 



Officer, 5l.; officer within whose command the offence is committed 

 by a soldier, II. To the poor of the place ; and being convicted by 

 justice of peace, and the penalty demanded by the constable (or over- 

 seer) the officer must pay it within ticodays, or forfeit his commission. 



By this act an officer, although invited by his friends to shoot on 



