APPENDIX. 



A GENERAL epitome of the Game Laws, as at present in 

 force, is almost as necessary an instrument for servants in 

 sporting capacities as any other article used in their craft. 

 Still, however abridged, it could not be brought within the 

 limits of an appendix to a work of this nature, the utmost 

 extent that it will permit being a brief notice of the most 

 important changes that have been recently effected. With 

 this intent, it is my purpose to confine myself to cases of 

 daily occurrence, applying the law to that which is con- 

 stantly arising in the course of a sporting servant's duty. 

 Ten years ago the Game Laws, in all their complexity, were 

 better known than they are now in their simplified form 

 because it requires a lapse of long extent to infuse into the 

 general mind any code of laws, however plain and condensed. 

 With this slight preface, and requesting allowance will be 

 made for the difficulty of making notices, necessarily cur- 

 tailed, sufficiently comprehensive to be useful, we will at 

 once proceed with our object. 



By Stat. 1 and 2 William IV. a c. 32, sec. 12, " The lord 

 or steward of the crown of any manor, lordship, or royalty, 

 may appoint one or more keepers to preserve or kill the 

 game within the limits of such manor." A material alter- 

 ation, as under the old law the power only extended to a 

 single deputation. 



* Commonly called "The Recent Game Act." 



