548 Practical Game Preserving, 



(e) Gunsmiths, gun makers, and their servants. 



(f) Carriers, when carrying guns in the ordinary course of their trade as 



common carriers. 



Section 8. Two or more persons carrying a gun in parts, all to be held liable. 



Section 9. Licence to be produced on demand from any officer of Inland 

 Revenue or constabulary, by anyone carrying or using a gun, or name and 

 address to be truly given, under a ^10 penalty. 



Section 10. Duly authorised officers may enter and remain upon lands of any 

 person carrying a gun, as long as may be necessary, to demand licence or name 

 and address. 



Section II. Licence to be void if holder be convicted under either the English 

 Game Act or the Scotch Game Act. 



Section 12. This Act not to overrule any other Act prohibiting any person or 

 persons from carrying firearms. 



Note. It will be seen that no private person has a right 

 to take proceedings for the recovery of penalties consequent 

 upon an infringement of the terms of this Act. 



(8.) THE WILD BIRDS PROTECTION ACT, 1880. 



Section I. Short title. 



Section 2. " Wild birds " to include all wild birds. 



Section 3. " Any person who, between the first day of March and the first 

 day of August in any year after the passing of this Act, shall knowingly and 

 wilfully shoot or attempt to shoot, or shall use any boat for the purpose of 

 shooting or causing to be shot, any wild bird, or shall use any lime, trap, snare, 

 net or other instrument for the purpose of taking any wild bird, or shall expose 

 or offer for sale, or shall have in his control or possession after the fifteenth day 

 of March, any wild bird recently killed or taken, shall on conviction of any such 

 offence before any two justices of the peace in England and Wales or Ireland, 

 or before the Sheriff in Scotland, in the case of any wild bird which is included 

 in the Schedule hereunto annexed, forfeit and pay for every such bird in respect 

 of which an offence has been committed, a sum not exceeding one pound ; and, 

 in the case of any other wild bird, shall, for a first offence, be reprimanded and 

 discharged on payment of costs, and, for every subsequent offence, forfeit and pay 

 for every such wild bird in respect of which an offence is committed, a sum of 

 money not exceeding five shillings, in addition to the costs, unless such person 

 shall prove that the said wild bird was either killed, or taken, or bought, or 

 received, during the period in which such wild bird could be legally killed or 

 taken, or received from some person residing out of the United Kingdom. 

 This section shall not apply to the owner or occupier of any land, or to any 





