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Section 1 6. Dogs belonging to persons not qualified may be destroyed by 

 virtue of justice's warrant. 



Section 17. Further redress for damage sustained by dogs may be recovered. 



Section 18 saves the rights or privileges of lords of manors. 



Sections 20, 21, 22, 23. Modes of judicial procedure under this Act. 



(17.) GAME LICENCE ACT [IRELAND] (5 & 6 Viet., c. 81). 



Section I recites 56 Geo. III., c. 56, and transfers collection and manage- 

 ment of the duties of ^3 3-y. payable on gamekeepers' and other certificates to 

 kill game in Ireland, to the Commissioners of Excise, but these duties have been 

 repealed by 23 & 24 Viet., c. 90, s. i. Vide p. 543. 



Section 2. Persons, other than gamekeepers, keeping dogs for killing game 

 must take out a game licence. 



Section 3. Gamekeeper must register his deputation with the excise officer 

 and take out a licence. 



Section 4. Certificates to be granted by Supervisor of Excise. 



Section 5. -Unlicensed persons keeping dogs to be liable to a penalty of 20. 



Section 6. Commissioners of Excise to publish list of licensed persons. 



Section 7. Gamekeepers' licences may be transferred on change of servants. 



Section 8 compels production of certificate ; penalty for refusal of same, or of 

 name and address, ^50. Anyone refusing production of certificate may be 

 apprehended. 



Section 9 repeals so much of 55 Geo. III., c. 100, as relates to game 

 certificates. 



Section 10. Act not to repeal or alter 7 & 8 Geo. IV., c. 49. 



This Act ako contains schedule of forms of certificate. 



(18.) 23 & 24 VICT., c. 113, s. 43. 



This section of the above Act stipulates that no person shall be required to 

 take out any licence or certificates to authorise the taking or killing of any rabbits 

 in Ireland. 



TRESPASS. 



Notwithstanding all the foregoing laws, the greater number 

 of convictions against persons in pursuit of game are obtained 

 by action at common law for trespass. It may, therefore, be 

 as well to give the subject some attention. 



By the common law, anyone having a freehold estate in 



