310 THE GAME LAWS. 



four in the morning, from the 1st day of March to the 1st day 

 of October, in each and every year, having any gun, net, engine, 

 or other instrument, for the purpose and with the intent to 

 destroy, take, or kill, or shall wilfully destroy, take, or kill, any 

 hare, rabbit, pheasant, partridge, heath fowl, commonly called 

 black-game, or grouse, commonly called red-game, or any other 

 game; or if any person or persons shall be found with any gun, 

 fire-arms, bludgeon, or with any other offensive weapon, pro- 

 tecting, aiding, abetting, or assisting any such person or persons 

 as aforesaid, every person so offending, being thereof lawfully 

 convicted, shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall 

 be sentenced to transportation for any term not exceeding seven 

 years, or shall receive such other punishment as may, by law, be 

 inflicted on persons guilty of misdemeanors, and as the court be- 

 fore which such offenders may be tried and convicted, shall ad- 

 judge ; and if any such offender or offenders shall return into 

 Great Britain, before the expiration of the term for which he or 

 they shall be so transported, contrary to the intent and meaning 

 hereof, he or they so returning, and being thereof duly convict- 

 ed, shall be adjudged guilty of felony, and shall be sentenced to 

 transportation for the term or terms of his or their natural life 

 or lives. 



A justice, on information before him, on the oath 'of any 

 credible witness or witnesses, may issue his warrant for the ap- 

 prehension of such offender or offenders ; and if upon the appre- 

 hension of any such offender or offenders it shall appear to such 

 justice, on the oath of any credible witness or witnesses, that the 

 person or persons so charged hath or have been guilty of any or 

 either of the said offences, it shall and may be lawful for such 

 justice to admit such person or persons so charged to bail, and 

 in default of bail, to commit such person or persons to the county 

 gaol, until the next general quarter sessions of the peace, or the 

 next general commission of gaol delivery.. 



