546 Practical Game Preserving. 



search any person whom he may have good cause to suspect of coming from any 

 land where he shall have been unlawfully in search or pursuit of game, or any 

 person aiding or abetting such person and having in his possession any game 

 unlawfully obtained, or any gun, or part of gun, or nets or engines used for killing 

 or taking game, and also to stop any cart or other conveyance suspected of 

 containing game. And should any of the above-mentioned articles be found 

 upon such person, cart or conveyance, the constable may seize and detain them, 

 and apply for a summons against the offending person or persons, who, on con- 

 viction, shall pay any sum not exceeding^, and forfeit the articles seized. If no 

 conviction result, the articles seized or their value shall be restored. 



Section 3. Directions for recovery of penalties. 



Section 4. Provisions of n & 12 Viet., c. 43, extended to this Act. 



Section 5. No conviction shall be quashed for want of form, or be removed 

 by certiorari. 



Section 6 gives power of appeal. 



Note. The most important point decided in connection 

 with this Act is that it is not necessary for anyone accused 

 of offence against its provisions to have been seen leaving 

 the land from which the game has been taken, but that 

 the justices may infer from the circumstances of the case 

 whether or not the accused has been unlawfully in pursuit 

 of game, and give judgment accordingly. The Act has 

 proved of singular effect in putting a stop to the collisions 

 between poachers and gamekeepers which before its passing 

 were so frequent, and so often resulted in bloodshed and 

 crime. 



(5.) THE POISONED GRAIN PROHIBITION ACT, 1883. 



Section i recites that it is expedient to prohibit the sale and use of poisoned 

 grain or seed. 



Section 2 enacts that everyone who offers for sale, or sells, any poisoned 

 grain, seed or meal, is liable to a penalty of not more than ^"10. 



Section 3 enacts that anyone who sows, or places, or causes to be sown or 

 placed, any poisoned grain, renders himself liable to a similar penalty. 



Section 4 permits the sale and use of solutions of poisonous nature for 

 protecting or dressing seed for bon&fide use in agriculture only. 



Section 5 provides for the recovery of penalties, entitles informers (not 



