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sumption ; provided such game shall have been purchased by 

 such innkeeper from licensed persons. Game sent by public 

 conveyances is to be entered in the way-bills, stating the names 

 and places of abode of the persons by whom, and to whom, such 

 game is sent. Power is also given to search public conveyances 

 for unentered parcels of game. The act is not to affect the 

 rights now possessed by lords and ladies of manors, nor to extend 

 to Scotland or Ireland. 



The agitation of this momentous question in parliament stirred 

 up some of the most humane hearts in vhe kingdom in support 

 of the intended measure ; some of whom were actuated by the 

 purest moral motives, as regards the prevention of crime, which 

 they thought this measure was likely to effect, by legalizing the 

 sale of an article that was in constant demand ; and thus, by 

 supplying the market according to act, the trade therein might 

 be taken out of the hands of those who would contravene the 

 law for the radix of this species of crime is mooted in the 

 consumers and the certainty of sale. 



The bill now (June 4) pending in parliament, which I have 

 just recited, will probably undergo some trifling alterations ; 

 but there is little or no doubt as to its passing : it will merely 

 authorize the sale of game by persons legally appointed, and in 

 all probability will have no further retrospective influence on 

 those statutes already passed relative to game, and which have 

 been stated, and copiously illustrated, in the preceding pages of 

 this volume. 



