THE GAME LAWS. 



session of any poulterer, salesman, fishmonger, cook, 

 er pastry-cook, the same shall be deemed an exposing, 

 thereof to sale. 



Particular Laws to prevent the improper Destruction 

 of Hares. 



There is an old statute (14 & 15 Henry VIII. 

 c. 10) which inflicts a penalty of six shillings and 

 eight-pence for tracing and killing a hare in the 

 snow. The 1st of James I. c. 27. goes further : by 

 this act, three months' imprisonment is inflicted on 

 the offender for either tracing or coursing a hare in 

 the snow; unless the offending party pay to the 

 churchwardens, for the use of the poor, twenty shil- 

 lings for every hare, or within one month after com- 

 mitment become bound with two sureties, in twenty 

 pounds each, not to offend again in like manner. 

 Two witnesses are necessary in this case, as also two 

 justices of the peace. 



The same penalty (by the same act) is also inflicted 

 for taking hares with hare- pipes, snares, or any other 

 engines: two witnesses are necessary to convict the 

 offender, before two justices. 



Also, by the 2t>d and 23d of Charles II. c. 25, if 

 any person be found using or setting any snare or 

 other engine for the purpose of taking hares, he shall 

 make the injured party such recompence as the jus- 

 tice shall appoint, and pay down immediately, tor the 

 use of the poor, a sum not exceeding ten shillings ; 



