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himself, or by any person permitted, directed, or commanded by him by 

 any writing under his hand, without the payment of any such duties of 

 assessed taxes as aforesaid, and without obtaining an annual game 

 certificate: provided always, that such hares shall be found and killed in 

 or upon his own land ; provided also, that no person permitted, directed, 

 or commanded as aforesaid shall have power to authorize any other 

 person whatever to take or destroy any hare. 



II. /Such persons not to be liable to tax on gamekeepers. 



III. 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 pursue 

 and kill or to join in the pursuit and killing hares by coursing with 

 greyhounds, or by hunting with beagles or other hounds, without the 

 having obtained an annual certificate. 



IV. Not to permit the destruction of hares, cGc., by poison. 



V. Interpretation of act. 



VI. Only to apply to Scotland. 



VII. Act may be amended, &c. 



SCOTCH TRESPASS ACT. 



(1 & 2 WILL. IV. CAP. LXVIII. AN ACT FOR THE MORE EFFECTUAL 



PREVENTION OF TRESPASSES IN PURSUIT OF GAME IN, 



SCOTLAND. JULY 17th, 1832.) 



I. Penalty on persons trespassing in the daytime upon lands in search 

 of game. Whereas trespasses upon property by persons unlawfully 

 engaged in the pursuit of game have recently become frequent in various 

 parts of Scotland, and have, in many cases, been attended by acts of 

 violence and intimidation, for the repression of which the laws now in 

 force in that part of the United Kingdom provide no sufficient remedy, 

 and that it is therefore expedient that more effectual and summary 

 remedies should be provided : be it therefore enacted by the King's most 

 excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords 

 spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament 

 assembled, and by the authority of the same, that if any person what- 

 soever shall commit any trespass by entering or being, in the day-time, 

 upon any land, without leave of the proprietor, in search or pursuit of 

 game, or of deer, roe, woodcocks, snipes, quails, landrails, wild ducks, or 

 conies, such person shall, on being summarily convicted thereof before a 

 justice of the peace, on proof on oath by one or more credible witness or 

 witnesses, or confession of the offence, or upon other legal evidence, forfeit 

 and pay such sum of money, not exceeding two pounds, as to the justice 

 shall seem meet, together with the costs of the conviction ; and that if 

 any person having his face blackened, coloured, or otherwise disfigured 

 for the purpose of disguise, or if any persons, to the number of five or 

 more together, shall commit any trespass by entering or being, in the 

 day-time, upon any land in search or pursuit of game, or of deer, roe, 

 woodcocks, snipe, quails, landrails, wild ducks, or conies, each of such 

 persons shall, on being summarily convicted thereof before a justice of 

 the peace on proof on oath by one or more credible witness or witnesses, 



