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3. To kill game on Sundays during the time of divine 

 service, and in the neighbourhood of churches and cemeteries. 



Driving game is entirely forbidden on Sundays. 



Lastly, it is to be remarked that the pursuit of wounded 

 game into another person's hunting district is forbidden. 



BELGIUM. 



The regulations relative to game and to the law of trespass 

 in pursuit of game in Belgium are governed by the law of 

 the 26th of February, 1846. The Moniteur Beige, in the 

 "Expose des Motifs" for this law (p. 1227), says: "The 

 Constituent Assembly, in destroying the feudal regime, has r 

 by its decree of the 4th-llth of August, 1789, considered the 

 right of shooting or destroying game as inherent to the land. 

 The execution of this decree having given rise to grave dis- 

 orders which it was necessary to repress in the interest of 

 agriculture, the same Assembly, by the law of the 28th 30th 

 of April, 1790, fixed certain limits to the right of pursuing 

 game." 



The material points of this law are 



1. The fixing by the Government of the periods for 

 opening and closing the right to shoot or otherwise pursue 

 game. 



2. Prohibition of every description of pursuing game, 

 either with gun, by coursing, by nets or snares, out of these 

 periods. 



3. Prohibition to pursue game over another person's land 

 without the consent of the proprietor, or of the person holding 

 a right from him. 



4. Prohibition to remove or destroy on another's land 

 eggs or broods of quails, pheasants, partridges, blackcock, 

 rails, grouse, plover, and waterfowl. 



Absolute prohibition, in or out of the stated periods, of 

 snares, nets, baited and other traps suitable for taking or 

 destroying pheasants, partridges, quails, blackcock, gelinottes, 



