i82 VEGETATING-PROCESS. 23. 



The legiflature having lately thought fit to 

 make rural divcrfions an objedt of taxation, it 

 might now be impolitic to make game altoge- 

 ther what it ought to be — private propert)'. 

 Neverthelefs it Hill flrikes me, as it did long 

 before the licences for fporting were inftituted, 

 that game might be rendered a public and pri- 

 vate fTood. 



Wherever perfonal property is afcertained, 

 there, alio, let a private property in game take 

 place; the property being invefled in the pro- 

 prietor of the land, not in the occupier of it; 

 and let every proprietor, great or fmall, have 

 a full and uncontroulable right to the game he 

 cznfnd upon his efiate. 



But the moment he fteps off his ov/n land, 

 whether on to the private property of another, 

 or into a forefl or mixed property, though full 

 perminion be firfl had from the proprietor or 

 keeper, let him become liable to fine or im.pri- 



tlie clear fee- fim pie cf a landed efiate of 99I. a year, remains 

 m the fame predicament. Whilft another man, perhaps 

 not worth a fhillinj-, but becaufe he has in his poffeffion 

 an efiate of one hundred a year, though mortgaged for 

 twice its valucj is entitled to the privilege of ranging with 

 iff^punit^'. 



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