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clared ineligible to have or keep for themselves or 

 ANY OTHER PERSON, guns, bows, greyhounds, 

 setting-dogs, ferrets, lurchers, nets, hare-pipes, gins, 

 snares, or other engines for the taking or killing rab- 

 bits, hares, pheasants, partridges, or other game. Any 

 person guilty of an infraction of this law is liable to a 

 penalty of 5Z., one half of which sum to be given to 

 the informer, and the other half to the poor of the 

 parish, to be levied by distress under the warrant of a 

 Justice ; and for want of distress, the offender may be 

 sent to the house of correction for three months for 

 the first offence, and for every subsequent offence 

 four months." But this penalty of 5Z. is attached by 

 the act of the 5th of Anne, c. 14; as it seems the 

 sum of 20s., the penalty inflicted by previous acts, 

 was deemed insufficient. The qualification of Charles 

 II. and the penalty of Anne are the modern practice, 

 and may be summed up in a few words thus : 

 Pursuing or killing game without the qualifications 

 just recited, subjects the offender to a penalty of 5/. 

 (supposing him to have a certificate ; if he has no cer- 

 tificate, he is liable to an additional penalty of 20/.) 

 By 9 Anne, c. 25. s. 3, a disqualified person is liable 

 to the same penalty for having game in his posses- 

 sion, unless it is ticketed by a qualified man. 



Qualification, in a legal sense, was, however, known 

 prior to -the time of Charles II. In the reign of Ri- 

 chard II. the qualification was 40s. per annum; 

 James I. advanced it to 1(H.; and though these statutes 

 have never been formally repealed, the act of Charles 



