442 THE GAME PRESERVER'S GUIDE. 



THE ACT 11 & 12 VICT. CAP. xxix., TO ENABLE PERSONS 

 TO KILL HARES IN ENGLAND AND WALES WITHOUT A 

 GAME CERTIFICATE. 



I. Persons in the occupation of inclosed ground, and in certain cases 

 Dinners, may 'kill hares without a game certificate. Whereas by an act 

 passed, &c., &c. [preamble omitted], be it therefore enacted by the 

 Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of 

 the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present Parlia- 

 ment assembled, and by the authority of the same, that from and after 

 the passing of this act it shall be lawful for any person, being in the 

 actual occupation of any inclosed lands, or for any owner thereof who 

 has the right of killing game thereon, by himself or by any person di- 

 rected or authorized by him in writing, according to the form in the 

 schedule to this act annexed, or to the like effect, so to do, to take, kill, or 

 destroy any hare then being in or upon any such inclosed lands, without 

 the payment of any such duties of assessed taxes as aforesaid, and with- 

 out the obtaining of an annual game certificate. 



II. Authority to kill hares to be limited to one person at the same time 

 in any one parish; ivhich authority shall be sent to the clerk of the 

 petty sessions, who shall register the same. If authority revoked, notice 

 to be given of the same. Provided always, and be it enacted, that no- 

 owner or occupier of land as aforesaid shall be authorized to grant or 

 continue, under the provisions of this act, authority to more than one 

 person, at one and the same time, to kill hares upon his land within any 

 one parish ; and that he shall deliver the said authority, or a copy 

 thereof, or cause the same to be delivered, to the clerk of the magistrates 

 acting for the petty sessions division within which the said lands are 

 situate, who shall forthwith register the same, and the date of such re- 

 gistration in a book to be kept by him for such purpose, which book shall 

 be at all reasonable times open to the inspection of the clerk of the com- 

 missioners acting in the execution of the acts for assessed taxes or of any 

 of the collectors of assessed taxes within such district ; and the said 

 authority, so soon as it shall have been registered as aforesaid, shall be 

 held good until after the first day of February in the year following that 

 within which the same is granted, unless the same be previously re- 

 voked, and notice of such revocation be given to the clerk of the magis- 

 trates as aforesaid ; and the said registered authority, or the unrevoked 

 register thereof, shall be good and sufficient evidence of the right of the 

 person to whom authority is given by the same to kill hares upon the- 

 lands mentioned within the same without having obtained an annual 

 game certificate. 



III. Persons not to be liable to tax on gamekeepers. And be it 

 enacted, that no person so directed or authorized to kill any hare as 

 aforesaid shall, unless otherwise chargeable, be liable to any duties of 

 assessed taxes as gamekeeper. 



IV. To extend to coursing or hunting. And be it enacted, that from 

 and after the passing of this act it shall be lawful for any person to pur- 

 sue and kill or to join in the pursuit and killing of any hare by coursing 



