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ceeding twenty pounds, nor less than ten ; for every subsequent 

 offence, a sum not exceeding thirty pounds, nor less than twenty 

 half to the informer, the other half to the poor. Also, should 

 a person be found using a dog, net, &c. with an intent to destroy 

 the game above-mentioned, at the specified prohibited times, he 

 will be liable to the same penalties, 



By s. 6. also of the same act, a person who shall take or destroy 

 any of the last-mentioned animals on a Sunday, or on a Christ- 

 mas day (in the day time) or use dog, &c. for that purpose, will 

 be liable to the same penalties as are inflicted for destroying game 

 in the night, and to be convicted in the same manner. 



Thirty-nine and 40 of Geo. III. c. 56. enacts, that if two or 

 more persons be found in a forest, park, wood, plantation, field, 

 meadow, or other open or enclosed ground, between the hours 

 of eight o'clock at night and six in the morning, from the 1st 

 day of October to the 1st of February ; or between the hours 

 of ten at night and four in the morning, from the 1st day of 

 February to the 1st of October, having any gun, &c. for the pur- 

 pose and intent to take or destroy, any hare, pheasant, partridge, 

 moor or heath game ; or if any person shall be found with fire- 

 arms, or other weapons aiding or assisting any such person as 

 aforesaid ; it shall be lawful for the owner of the place where any 

 such persons are found, or his servants, or in fact any person, to 

 apprehend such offenders, and deliver them into the custody of 

 a peace officer, by whom they are to be conveyed before a jus- 

 tice of the peace ; who is authorized to commit such offenders 

 to th j house of correction, there to suffer such punishments as 

 are directed to be inflicted on rogues and vagabonds. Or in 

 case such offenders make their escape, any justice, on the oath 

 of one credible witness, may issue his warrant for their apprehen- 

 sion ; and such persons, upon being apprehended, may be com- 

 mitted, upon the oath of one credible witness, the same as 

 though he had been taken on the spot. 



