THE GAME LAWS. 



New Forest^ Hampshire, does not begin till the 1st of Septem- 

 ber. 



Also (by 4 and 5 Will, and Mary, c. 22. s. 11.) no person is 

 allowed, between the 2nd of February and the 24-th of June, to 

 burn any gaig, ling, heath, furze, goss, or fern, on any moun- 

 tains, heaths, or other places where moor game and heath fowls 

 breed, upon pain of being committed to the house of correction 

 for any time not exceeding one month, nor less than ten days. 



The season for shooting partridges begins on the 1st of Sep- 

 tember, and ends on the 1st of February ; that for pheasants 

 commences on the 1st of October, and ends at the same time as 

 partridge shooting : the penalty attached to the taking, destroy- 

 ing, carrying, or having in possession, at any other period of 

 the year, any of these birds, is five pounds for every pheasant or 

 partridge ; unless, however, such pheasant or partridge was taken 

 at the proper season of the year, and kept in a mew or breeding 

 place. The whole of this penalty to be paid to the informer 

 with full costs of suit. 



As to woodcocks, snipes, quails, landrails, and rabbits, there 

 is no specified time for their destruction, though snipes as well 

 as quails breed in this country. In fact, it does not appear, that 

 either woodcocks, snipes, or rabbits, are that species of game, 

 the bare possession of which, ia an unqualified person, is penal, 

 unless it can be proved that the two first were shot, and the last 

 caught in a place other than a warren, &c. 



By the 35th, therefore of Geo. III. c. 80. s. 1. it is provided, 

 that if any person shall take or destroy any hare, pheasant, par- 

 tridge, moor-game, or heath-game, between seven o'clock at 

 night and six in the morning, from the 12th of October till the 

 12th of February ; and between nine o'clock at night and four 

 in the morning, from the 12th of February to the 12th of Oc- 

 tober; such person, upon conviction before a justice of the 

 peace, upon the oath of one witness, shall forfeit a sum not ex- 



