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6. All offences mentioned in this Act, which shall be committed 
within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty, shall be deemed to be 
offences of the same nature and liable to the same punishments as 
if they had been committed upon any land in the United Kingdom, 
and may be dealt with, inquired of, tried, and determined in any 
county or place in the United Kingdom, in which the offender shall 
be apprehended or be in custody, in the same manner in all respects 
as if they had been actually committed in that county or place; 
and in any information or conviction for any such offence, the 
offence may be averred to have been committed “ on the high seas,” 
and in Scotland any offence committed against this Act on the sea 
coast, or at sea beyond the ordinary jurisdiction of any sheriff or 
justice of the peace, shall be held to have been committed in any 
_county abutting on such sea coast, or adjoining such sea, and may 
be tried and punished accordingly. 
7. Where any offence under this Act is committed in or upon any 
waters forming the boundary between any two counties, districts of 
quarter sessions or petty sessions, such offence may be prosecuted 
before any justice or justices of the peace or sheriff in either of 
such counties or districts. 
[I think it well to append to this reprint of the Bill the following extracts 
from a letter addressed by the Baroness Burdett-Coutts to the Editor of the 
‘Times,’ at the request of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to 
Animals.— EH. Newman. } 
“The probable extermination of our birds by bird traffic, and 
the great cruelty inflicted through its agency, are the main reasons 
which have induced the committee to ask you kindly to grant this 
opportunity to suggest that an Act for the protection of birds 
during the season when the young birds cannot live without their 
parents’ care might well be enacted for all varieties, similar to those 
laws by which sea-birds are.protected in England, and small birds 
in Germany. This security would restore the natural proportion 
of one sort of bird to another, which has been destroyed by the 
indiscriminate and ignorant slaughter of our feathered friends and 
the larger birds which prey on them; and it would prevent the 
wholesale cruelty inflicted on our most beautiful and delightful 
visitants by bird-traders. I have been selected to make this sugges- 
tion, and represent the pitiable case of our little clients, because I am 
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