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such being taken away by any justice or person having ^40 per annum freehold in 

 the county, who may detain or dispose of r,ame, and shall on conviction be liable 

 to a penalty of ^5 for each offence. 



Section 3. Any person qualified to keep any hound or spaniel, and who 

 conceals or shelters the same for an unqualified person, shall forfeit 40. 



Section 8 enacts that no person not having freehold estate of ^40 a year, or 

 personal estate of the value of ,1,000, can shoot at, kill, take or destroy any 

 hare, pheasant, partridge, grouse or quail, under a penalty of los. 



Section 20. Dogs may be kept and used by tenants in a manor, with lord's 

 consent. 



(15.) CLOSE TIMES. 



The various Acts regulating the close times for game in Ireland are given on 

 page 540 ; their effects are set forth in the table on page 542. 



(16.) GAME TRESPASS ACT (27 Geo. III., c. 35). 



Section I repeals some previous Acts. 



Section 2 repeals 10 Will. III., c. 8, s. 14, and part of s. 8 and s. 15. 



Section 3 recites 10 Will. III., c. 8, s. 7, and enacts that nothing therein as 

 to muirburn shall extend to such as is broken up for agriculture or planting. 



Section 4 provides a number of penalties for killing, taking or dealing in game 

 out of season and on Sundays, for taking game unlawfully, for tracing hares, and 

 for destroying eggs and nests of game. 



Section 5. Unqualified persons using dog, gun, snare, net, &c., for taking 

 game at night, to forfeit a penalty of ^"10. 



Section 6. Higglers, &c., having possession of game, not the property of 

 qualified persons, to forfeit $. (This section is, however, overruled by the 

 English Game Act, i & 2 Will. IV., c. 32, s. 26, except so far as concerns quails 

 and landrails.) 



Section 7. Repealed by the Game Licence Act. 



Section 8 specifies the qualifications for keeping dogs. 



Section 9. Repealed as above. 



Section 10. Unauthorised persons trespassing in pursuit of game liable to a 

 penalty not exceeding ^10. 



Section II. Persons not to be deemed looking for game who shall not appear 

 to be provided with a dog or dogs, gun or guns, net or nets, or some other 

 implements for taking or killing game. 



Section 12. Persons qualified may follow four-footed game into the lands of 

 other persons. 



Section 13. Damages may be recovered for so doing. 



Sections 14, 15. Repealed. 



