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The lOtli section also provides, that the Act 

 shall not give to any owner of cattle gates, or 

 rights of common, any interest or privilege which 

 he did not possess before the passing of this Act ; 

 but the rights and privileges in such wastes or 

 commons shall remain as they did before the 

 passing of this Act. 



The 1.2th section enacts, that where the lessor 

 or landlord has reserved to himself the right of 

 killing game upon any land, he may authorize 

 other persons, having obtained annual game cer- 

 tificates, to pursue and kill game thereon. 



But where the i-ight of killing the game upon 

 any land is by this Act given to any lessor or 

 landlord, in exclusion of the right of the occupier 

 of such land, or where such exclusive right has 

 been, or shall be, specially reserved by or granted 

 to, or belongs to the lessor, landlord, or any other 

 person than the occupier, then, if the occupier 

 shall pursue, kill, or take any game upon such 

 land, or give permission to any other person so to 

 do, without the authority of the lessor, landlord, 

 or other person having the right of killing game 

 on such land, such occupier shall forfeit, for every 

 head of game so killed or taken, any sum not ex- 

 ceeding £2; with costs of conviction. — Sect. 12. 



By section 13, lords of manors, &c., may appoint 

 gamekeepers within the same, and authorize them 

 to seize and take all dogs, nets, and other engines 



