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shall think fit) to grant, under their hands, to any person being a house- 

 bolder or keeper of a shop or stall within such division or district, and 

 not being an innkeeper^ or victualler, or licensed to sell beer by re- 

 tail, nor being the owner, guard, or driver of any mail coach, or other 

 vehicle employed in the conveyance of the mails of letters, or of any 

 stage coach, stage waggon, van, or other public conveyance, nor being a 

 carrier or higgler, nor being in the employment of any of the above-men- 

 tioned persons, a licence according to the form in the schedule (A) an- 

 nexed to this act, empowering the person to whom such licence shall be 

 so granted to buy game at any place from any person who may lawfully 

 sell game by virtue of this act, and also to sell the same at one house, 

 shop, or stall only, kept by him ; provided that every person, while so 

 licensed to deal in game as aforesaid, shall affix to some part of .the out- 

 side of the front of his house, shop, or stall, and shall there keep, a board 

 having thereon in clear and legible characters his Christian name and 

 surname, together with the following words, (that is to say,) " Licensed 

 to deal in game ;" and every such licence granted in the present year 

 shall begin to be in force on the first day of November in the present 

 year, and shall continue in force until the fifteenth day of July, one 

 thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and every such licence granted in 

 any succeeding year shall continue in force for the period of one year 

 next after the granting thereof. 



XIX. Persons licensed to deal in game must take, out a certificate, with 

 a duty of 21. And be it enacted, that every person who shall have ob- 

 tained any licence to deal in game under the provisions of this act shall 

 annually and during the continuance of his licence, and before he shall be 

 -empowered to deal in game under such licence, obtain a certificate ac- 

 cording to the form in the schedule (B) annexed to this act, on payment 

 of the duty of two pounds, which is hereby granted and made payable to 

 his Majesty for every such certificate, which certificate shall be in force 

 for the same period as such licence ; and the said duty shall be paid to 

 the collector or collectors of the assessed taxes for the parish, township, 

 or place in which the person so licensed shall reside, in like manner as 

 the duties on game certificates are by law payable ; and every receipt to 

 foe given by any collector receiving such duty shall be free of stamp duty, 

 and shall be delivered to the person requiring the same, on payment to 

 the collector of one shilling, and no more, over and above the said duty 

 for the certificate ; and such receipt shall be exchanged for a certificate 

 tinder this act, in like manner as receipts for the duty in respect of killing 

 game are by law required to be exchanged for game certificates ; and if 

 any person obtaining a licence under this act shall purchase or sell or 

 otherwise deal in game, as a licensed dealer under this act, before he 

 shall obtain a certificate in exchange for a receipt as herein directed, such 

 person shall for every such offence forfeit and pay the penalty of twenty 

 pounds. 



XX. Collectors to make out list of persons who have obtained licences 

 to deal in game. And be it enacted, that the collector or collectors of the 

 assessed taxes in every parish, township, or place wherein any person 

 shall reside who shall have obtained such annual licence and certificate, 

 shall in each year make out a list, to be kept in his or their possession, 



