GAME LAWS AMENDMENT BILL. SQl 



great additional facilities in the preservation of that which afForda 

 them the amusement and recreation to which they are fairly 

 entitled. 



Your committee have, in conformity to the opinions here 

 submitted to the House, directed their chairman to move for 

 leave to bring in a bill or billsj for effecting the several objects 

 herein recommended for the consideration and adoption of the 

 House. 



April 18, 1823. 



In conformity with the above report, a bill has been brought 

 into the House of Commons to make the selling of game legal ; 

 and the following are its chief provisions : 



Two or more magistrates at any petty sessions may grant 

 licenses for one year to any householder (not being an innkeeper 

 or victualler, or stage-coach owner, or waggoner) to buy game 

 of a qualified person, and to sell the same. Persons on taking 

 a game certificate are to state to the clerks of the commissioners 

 or surveyors of the district, whether they are qualified to kill 

 game by virtue of having a real estate ; and every such state- 

 ment is to be published by the commissioners for the affairs of 

 taxes, in the lists of certificates directed to be advertised by them ; 

 and any person may inspect the entries of such statements in a 

 book, to be kept by such clerks or surveyors, on payment of one 

 shilling to such clerk or surveyor. Qualified persons taking out 

 game certificates are to be exonerated from the penalty for selling 

 game, as well as licensed persons for buying it ; but licensed 

 persons are to be prohibited from buying, except of qualified 

 persons. Power is given, on information, to search a licensed 

 person and his family, for game, unlawfully purchased or pre- 

 cured ; and also to search an unqualified person and his premises, 

 for game suspected to have been illegally procured. Innkeepers 

 not to be liable to penalties for game sold in their inns for con- 



