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persons killing or taking any partridge between 

 February tbe 1st and September the 1st; or any 

 plieasant between February tbe 1st and October 

 tbe 1st ; or any black game (except in Somerset 

 or Devon, or in tbe New Forest, Southampton) 

 between December the 10th and August 20th ; or 

 in Somerset, Devon, or the New Forest, between 

 December the 10th and September the 1st; or 

 any grouse between December the 10th and 

 August the 12th ; or any bustard between March 

 the 1st and September the 1st, shall forfeit for 

 every head of game so killed or taken any sum 

 not exceeding £1, with costs of conviction. And 

 persons putting, or causing to be put, with intent 

 to destroy or injure any game, any poison or 

 poisonous ingredient, on any ground, whether 

 open or enclosed, where game usually resort, or in 

 any highway, shall forfeit any sum not exceeding 

 ^10, with costs of conviction. 



Section 4 enacts that if any person, licensed to 

 deal in game by this Act, shall buy or sell, or 

 knowingly have in his house, or possession, or 

 control, any bird of game after the expiration of 

 ten days (one inclusive and the other exclusive) 

 from the respective days in which it is unlawful 

 to kill or take such birds of game ; or if any 

 person, not being licensed to deal in game, shaU 

 buy or sell any bird of game after the expiration 

 of ten days (one inclusive and the other exclusive) 



