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other person or not. or the servant of any other per- 

 son, qualified or unqualified, to kill game within a 

 specified manor for his own use, or for the use of any 

 other person or persons to be specified in such ap- 

 pointment or deputation, whether qualified or not ; 

 nor is it necessary such person should be entered or 

 paid for as the male servant of the lord who thus 

 gives the deputation : and gamekeepers thus ap- 

 pointed are to have the same rights and privileges 

 as if they were legally qualified and appointed as 

 gamekeepers to the lord of such manors, under any 

 laws in force prior to the passing of this act. 



But on the appointment of a new gamekeeper, a 

 new certificate must be taken out; or he incurs the 

 penalties of the statute. 



With respect to the appointment of a gamekeeper, 

 it appears from 23 Car. 1L c. 25, s. 2, that lords of 

 manors or other royalties, not under the degree of an 

 esquire, may appoint gamekeepers : it is very clear, 

 therefore, that persons under the degree just men- 

 tioned have no legal right whatever to depute or 

 appoint a gamekeeper, and consequently that those 

 who are otherwise appointed are liable to the penal- 

 ties above mentioned. There are great numbers thus 

 illegally appointed ; and for who are esquires in the 

 eye of the law, I refer the reader to page 3. 



Gamekeepers, generally speaking, possess no higher 

 notions of honour or honesty than is necessary to 

 escape the punishment of the law. It frequently 

 happens that a notorious poacher, whom the utmost 



