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licence to deal in game may sell it retail or buy it whole- 

 sale, whether alive or dead. (" Game " includes hares 

 but not rabbits.) The only persons entitled to sell to 

 such licensed dealers are those who have taken out the 

 full 3 licence to kill game. It is the received opinion 

 that a gamekeeper holding a 2 licence may lawfully 

 sell game to a dealer on the account and with the 

 written authority of his master (who must have the full 

 3 licence), provided that he only sells game killed on 

 lands over which his employer has the right of shooting. 

 (The statutory sections, which on this point are rather 

 confused, are 23 and 24 Viet, c. go,s. 1 7, and i and 2 Will, 

 iv., c. 32, ss. 17, 25 : see Highmore's Excise Laws, 

 2nd Ed., Part II., p. 181.) Another exception is intro- 

 duced by the Ground Game Act, 1880, in favour of 

 persons killing ground game under that Act, who may 

 sell such game killed by them to a licensed dealer though 

 they have not a licence to kill game. 



Showing licence. Any person doing any act in 

 Great Britain for which a licence to kill game is neces- 

 sary, must show his licence to, and allow a copy of it 

 to be taken by, any officer of Inland Revenue, or any 

 person duly licensed to kill game, or the owner, occupier, 

 or gamekeeper of the land on which he then is, who 

 demands to see his licence. If the licence is not pro- 

 duced, the person must give his true name and address 

 and state the place where he took out the licence, under 

 a penalty of 20 in case of refusal, or of the information 

 proving false. 



