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surname, and place of abode, and in case such person, after being so 

 required, shall offend by refusing to tell his real name or place of 

 abode, such person shall, upon being convicted of any such offence 

 before a justice or justices of the peace, forfeit and pay, in addition to 

 any penalties incurred under Sections 3, 4 & 5 of this Act, such sum 

 of money not exceeding twenty shillings as to the convicting justice 

 or justices shall seem meet, together with the costs of such conviction. 



" 9- — The penalties incurred under this Act shall in all prosecutions 

 at the instance of any person authorized by Section 6, be paid and 

 applied in manner following, that is to say, one moiety of every such 

 penalty shall go and be paid to the person who shall inform and pro- 

 secute for the same, and the other moiety shall be paid and applied in 

 such manner as the said justice or justices may direct. 



*' 10. — This Act shall come into operation on the first day of May 

 next after the passing hereof. 

 " 11. — This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland." 



On Wednesday, March 10th, an influential meeting was held at the 

 Havover Square Rooms, to consider the Bill now before Parliament 

 for the preservation of sea-fowl during the breeding season. 



Mr. Sykes, M.P., who had introduced the Bill, occupied the chair 

 and amongst those present were the Hon. W. O. Stanley, M.P. 

 Mr. R. Ward Jackson, M.P. ; Mr. Clay, M.P. ; Mr. R. Winn, M.P. 

 Lord Alfred Churchill ; Lord Clermont ; Vicount Walden, President 

 of the Zoological Society ; Mr. C. B. Denison, M.P. ; Sir G. Grey, 

 Gen. Buckley, Col. Ainslie, Col. Mountjoy Martyn, Lieut.-Col. Fyers, 

 Lieut.-Col. Hall, Prof A. Newton; P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., Secretary to 

 the Zoological Society; W. H. Flower, F.R.S. ; Dr. A. Gunther,F.R.S.; 

 Robert Hudson, F.R.S. ; Edward Blyth, F.Z.S. ; Osbert Salvin, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S. ; J. E. Harting, F.L.S., F.Z.S. ; W. H. Huddlestone, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S. ; A. W. Crichton, F.L.S., F.Z.S. ; H. E. Dresser, F.Z.S. ; 

 G. Cavendish Taylor, F.Z.S. ; F. H. Lascelles, F.Z.S. ; Dr. Crisp, 

 Dr. Armitage, Edward Alston, J. H. Belfrage, W. M. Wilkinson, 

 Francis Darwin, Henry Lee, Frank Buckland, T. Harland, Rev. H. 

 Barnes, Rev. F. O. Morris, Rev. H. Ward, R. Palmer, J. Dennis, 

 E. Dymond, F, W. Lucas, W. B. Tegetmeier, R. B. Sharpe, and 

 many others. 



Letters of apology were read from His Royal Highness Prince 



