554 Practical Game Preserving. 



Section n. Where the landlord or lessor has reserved the right in game, he 

 may authorise anyone who has a game licence to pursue and kill game upon 

 the land. 



Section 12. Where the landlord has the right in game upon any land in 

 exclusion of the occupier, if the occupier kill or take game, or cause it to be killed 

 or taken, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 2 for the offence, and not 

 exceeding i for every head of game so killed or taken.* 



Section 13. Lords of manor may appoint gamekeepers, and authorise them to 

 seize and take all dogs, nets, and other engines, and instruments used by anyone 

 for taking or killing game, by persons unpossessed of the necessary licence to kill 

 game. 



Section 14. Lords of manor have power to grant deputations. 



Section 15. Every person seised in fee or as of freehold of lands in walls of 

 clear ^"500 annual value, such lands not being within any manor, lordship or 

 royalty, or being within the same shall have been enfranchised or alienated 

 therefrom, may appoint gamekeepers. 



Section 16. All appointments of gamekeepers to be registered with the clerk 

 of the peace. 



Section 17. Persons having a licence to kill may also sell game to licensed 

 dealers. Gamekeepers may sell game on account of their masters only. 



Section 18. Justices to hold a special sessions yearly in July for the purpose 

 of granting licences to deal in game, and are authorised to grant licences to any 

 householder or keeper of shop or stall not being an innkeeper, victualler, or 

 licensed to sell beer by retail or the owner, guard or driver of any mail coach, 

 stage coach, stage waggon, van, or other public conveyance, or a carrier or 

 higgler, or being in the employment of any of the above-mentioned persons, to buy 

 game at any place, from any person who may lawfully sell game, and to sell the 

 same at one house, shop or stall, only kept by him ; provided that persons so 

 licensed have their names in full, together with the words " Licensed to deal in 

 Game," on a board in front of their house, shop, &c. 



Section 19 (repealed) required persons having the justices' licence to deal 

 in game to take out a Government licence annually, with a duty of 2, under a 

 penalty of 20 (vide Game Licence Act, p. 543). 



Section 20 (repealed) required collectors of assessed taxes to make out lists 

 of persons licensed, and provided for the charging of the duty (vide Game Licence 

 Act, p. 543). 



Section 2 1 . One licence to suffice for two or more partners. 



Section 22. Any person licensed under this Act, convicted of any offence 

 against it, forfeits his licence. 

 Section 23. Any person killing or taking game, or using any dog, gun, net, 



* This section is to some extent modified by the Ground Game Act. 



