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are liable to be fined ten dollars, and to have their dogs shot 

 by the competent proprietor or gamekeeper. 



Field labourers taking loose dogs with them to their 

 work are liable to a fine of ninepence for each offence. 

 Excluded from this rule are shepherds' dogs and the like. 

 The fine is not applicable where a dog follows its owner 

 nnder circumstances such that no poaching intentions can 

 be fairly assumed. 



POETUGAL. 



Every one is permitted to shoot, subject to the regulations 

 imposed in the interests of agriculture. 



In order to shoot game a licence is required, which is 

 purchased from the Civil Government, the use of firearms 

 being prohibited without such licence. 



Every one may shoot on their own property, and on any 

 cultivated lands (it seems) after the crop is gathered. 



The municipality fixes annually the time when permis- 

 sion is allowed to sport on certain lands. 



On open ground, planted with olive and other fruit trees, 

 it is only during the period from the commencement of the 

 fruit becoming ripe until gathered that such permission 

 is withheld. 



Game becomes the property of the sportsman on captur- 

 ing it ; he acquires a right to wounded game also. 



If wounded game enters enclosed property the sportsman 

 may not follow it, except with permission 'of the landowner. 

 The sportsman can require the landowner, if present, to 

 deliver up the dead game, or permit him to seek it. 



Any damage done by the sportsman he is responsible for, 

 if done in absence of landowner. If more than one sports- 

 man, they are conjointly responsible. 



Dogs entering enclosed property in pursuit of game, 

 makes the sportsman responsible for damage done by them. 



The owner of property, enclosed in such a manner as to 



