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has been suggested that all game found on suspicious parties, 

 whether in carts, or boats, or other vehicles, should be liable 

 to be seized by the police, and taken before a magistrate, 

 ' who shall have power to direct it to be forfeited and sold 

 as before stated if the person claiming it cannot prove an 

 undoubted right to it by a legitimate purchase as a licensed 

 dealer, or as having killed it on his own grounds.' It would 

 also be worth consideration how far it would be advisable to 

 increase the price of a licence for dealing in game, from the 

 present lower figure of 21. to one of 10., thus insuring a 

 more respectable class of tradesmen." 



THE NEW GAME LAW OP 1831 FOR ENGLAND AND WALES 

 (1 & 2 WILL. 4, CAP. XXXIL). 



I. Repeals the following Acts viz., 13 Ric. 2, st. 1, c. 13 ; 22 Edw. 4, 

 c. 6; 11 Hen. 7, c. 17; 19 Hen. 7, c. 10 ; 14 & 15 Hen. 8, c. 16; 25 

 Hen. 8, c. 11 ; 33 Hen. 8, c. 6; 23 Eliz. c. 10 ; 2 Jac. 1, c. 27 ; 7 Jac. 1, 

 c. 11 ; 22 & 23 Car. 2, c. 25 ; 4 W. & M. c. 23 ; 5 Ann. c. 14 ; 9 Ann. c. 

 25 ; 8 G. 1, c. 19 ; 10 G. 2, c. 32 ; 26 G. 2, c. 2 ; 28 G. 2, c. 12 ; 2 G. 3, 

 c. 19; 13 G. 3,c. 55; 13 G. 3, c. 80; 39 G. 3, c. 34; 43 G. 3, c. 112; 

 50 G. 3, c. 67 ; 58 G. 3, c. 75; 59 G.3, c. 102. 



II. What shall be deemed game. And be it enacted, that the word 

 " Game" shall for all the purposes of this Act be deemed to include hares, 

 pheasants, partridges, grouse, heath or moor game, black game, and bus- 

 tards ; and that the words " Lord of a Manor, Lordship, or Royalty, or 

 reputed Manor, Lordship, or Royalty," shall throughout this act be 

 deemed to include a lady of the same respectively. 



III. Days and seasons during which game shall not be kitted. Penalty 

 for laying poison to kill game. And be it enacted, that if any person 

 whatsoever shall kill or take any game, or use any dog, gun, net, or other 

 engine or instrument for the purpose of killing or taking any game, on a 

 Sunday or Christmas Day, such person shall on conviction thereof before 

 two justices of the peace, forfeit and pay for every such offence such sum 

 of money, not exceeding five pounds, as to the said justices shall seem 

 meet, together with the costs of the conviction ; and if any person what- 

 soever shall kill or take any partridge between the first day of February 

 and the first day of September in any year, or any pheasant between the 

 first day of February and the first day of October in any year, or any 

 black game (except in the county of Somerset or Devon, or in the New 

 Forest in the county of Southampton) between the tenth day of December 

 in any year and the twentieth day of August in the succeeding year, or 

 in the county of Somerset or Devon, or in the New Forest aforesaid, be- 

 tween the tenth day of December in any year and the first day of Sep- 

 tember in the succeeding year, or any grouse commonly called red game 

 between the tenth day of December in any year and the twelfth day of 



