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offenders, limit the time for commencing proceedings, and give the form of 

 conviction. 



Sections 6, 7 and 8 give power of appeal against summary conviction, enact 

 that no conviction or adjudication made on appeal shall be quashed for want of 

 form, and that convictions be returned for registration, and may be given in 

 evidence. 



Section 9. Persons, to the number of three or more, entering any land for 

 the purpose of taking or destroying game, &c., shall be held guilty of a 

 misdemeanour. 



Sections 10 and u enact certain rules of judicial procedure for Scotland. 



Note. This Act applies also to Scotland and Ireland. 



(2.) ACT PERMITTING THE KILLING OF HARES (11 & 12 Viet., c. 29). 



Section I enacts that it shall be lawful for persons in the occupation of any 

 inclosed lands, or for the owner thereof who has the right of killing game thereon, 

 by himself or by any person authorised by him according to the form in the 

 schedule at foot, or according to one of like effect, to take, kill or destroy hares 

 being upon such land, without a licence to kill game. 



Section 2. No owner or occupier to have power to give authority to more 

 than one person at the same time, in any one parish, and such authority or a 

 copy thereof to be sent to the clerk of the magistrates acting for the petty 

 sessions division within which the said lands are situate. 



Section 3. No person so authorised to kill any hare as aforesaid shall, unless 

 otherwise chargeable, be liable to any duties of assessed taxes as a gamekeeper. 



Section 4 permits the coursing or hunting of hares without a game licence. 



Section 5 debars the laying of poison or the use of firearms by night, for the 

 purpose of killing hares or other game. 



Section 6. This Act not to affect any agreements reserving game. 



Sections 7, 8 and 9 are unimportant. 



Schedule. 



I, A B, do authorise C D to kill hares on my lands (or the lands occupied 



by me, as the case may be), within the of (here insert the 



name of the parish or other place, as the case may be}. 



Dated this day of (here insert the day, month, and year). 



(Witness) A B. 



(3.) THE GAME LICENCE ACT (23 & 24 Viet., c. 90). 

 Section \ repeals old Acts relating to gun licences, &c. 



Section 2. In lieu of the old duties repealed, the following duties are to be 

 levied : 



