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To enter any forest, chase, park, or open or enclosed ground, between 

 six in the evening and seven in the morning from the 1st of October to 

 the 1st of February, between seven in the evening and five in the morn- 

 ing from February the 1st to April the 1st, and between nine in the 

 evening and four in the morning for the rest of the year, armed, and 

 having nets, &c. transportation for seven years. Offenders may be ap- 

 prehended by any person. (57 Geo. III. c. 90.) Gamekeepers may 

 seize all game unlawfully taken ; and guns, nets, dogs, (except hounds, 

 1 Barnew. and Alders. Rep. 134,) &c. used by unqualified persons; 

 and they, as also constables and peace-officers, may, by warrant, enter 

 houses of suspected persons not qualified to search for game ; (22 and 

 23 Cha. II. c. 25 ; 4 and 5 Will, and Mary, c. 23; 9 Geo. I. c. 22.) 

 Officers or soldiers destroying game, without leave of the lord of the 

 manor, forfeit 51, (58 Geo. III. c. 75.) 



BUYING AND SELLING GAME. 



To sell or expose to sale Hares, Pheasants, Partridges, Moor or Heath 

 Game, or Grouse, penalty 51. or three months' imprisonment, (28 Geo. 

 II. c. 12.) Unqualified persons, (9 Ann, c. 25 ;) poulterers, &c. (25 

 Geo. II. c. 12;) carriers, innkeepers, victuallers, (5 Ann, c. 14;) having 

 game in their possession, to be deemed exposing it to sale. But carriers 

 having in their possession game belonging to qualified persons are not 

 subject to penalties. And by statute 58 Geo. III. c. 75, to buy game, 

 penalty 5L or six months' imprisonment. To buy or sell deer, penalty 

 4Os. (5 Ann, c. 14,) Gamekeepers selling or exposing to sale game, 

 penalty 51. or three months' imprisonment, (9 Ann, c. 25.) Persons 

 having destroyed game, discovering within three months any carrier, 

 innkeeper, or victualler, having bought or sold, or offered to buy or sell, 

 or had in his possession any game, are exempt from penalty, (5 Ann, 

 c. 14.) And by the 58 Geo. III. c. 75, any peron having bought or 

 sold game, discovering within six months any person guilty of a like of- 

 fence, is entitled to the same exemption. 



N. B. Some doubt having been entertained whether rabbits are to be 

 considered game, it may be proper to observe that the first statute which 

 required a certificate for killing them was the 52 Geo. III. e. 93; but 

 it is not penal to expose them to sale, for the statutes relative to this 

 matter do not mention them in their enumeration. 

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