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laws for carrying arms without permission. Formerly two 

 licences were required : a licence to carry arms, and a licence 

 to shoot game. One licence is now sufficient, called, "Per- 

 niesso di Armi e di Caccia : " this licence is obtained from 

 the head of the police department, in the chief town of each 

 province, who delivers it at his discretion to persons of 

 whose respectability he is assured. The charge for it, which 

 varies in different provinces, is at Naples equivalent to 

 about lls. 2d. 



Any person provided with such a licence> may shoot in 

 the open country ; but it is forbidden to go in pursuit of 

 game into royal preserves, or upon any grounds enclosed 

 with walls, hedges, ditches, or banks of earth of the height 

 of four feet four inches, without the. owner's leave, under 

 pain of forfeiture of gun, accoutrements, etc., together with 

 a fine not exceeding ten ducats (about 1 145.). The same 

 prohibition extends to unenclosed vineyards from the 1st of 

 September to the close of the vintage. 



A similar penalty is incurred by any person shooting, or 

 going in pursuit of game, from the 1st of April to the 30th 

 of August. 



Quails, and other birds of passage, however, may be 

 taken or shot on the sea-shore, in the months of April and 

 May, and on uncultivated ground elsewhere, in June and 

 July. 



The employment of snares, or nooses to catch hares, 

 partridges, woodcocks, or pheasants, is prohibited at all 

 times, and in all places, under penalty of a fine of ten ducats 

 (about 1 14s.), and imprisonment for a term not exceeding 

 fifteen days. The same penalty is incurred by any person 

 shooting another's pigeons in the fields, taking eggs from 

 the nests of quails, partridges, pheasants, and blackcocks, 

 or taking the young of hares or deers. 



The above-mentioned penalties may be doubled in the 

 case of offences committed during the night. 



