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and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the 
authority of the same: 
1. That the words “ wild bird” shall for all the purposes of this 
Act be deemed to include the birds specified in the schedule to 
this Act; the word “sheriff” shall include steward and also sheriff 
substitute and steward substitute. 
2. Any person who shall knowingly or with intent kill, wound, 
or take any wild bird, or shall expose or offer for sale any wild bird 
recently killed, wounded, or taken, between the fifteenth day of 
March and the first day of August in any year shall, on conviction 
of any such offence before any justice or justices of the peace in 
England or Ireland, or before the sheriff or any justice or justices of 
the peace in Scotland, for a first offence be reprimanded and dis- 
charged on payment of costs and summons, and for every subsequent 
offence forfeit and pay for every such wild bird so killed, wounded, 
or taken, or so exposed or offered for sale, such sum of money as 
including costs of conviction shall not exceed five shillings, as to 
the said justice, justices, or sheriff shall seem meet, unless he shall 
prove to the satisfaction of the said justice, justices, or sheriff that 
the said wild bird was or were bought or received on or before the 
said fifteenth day of March, or of or from some person or persons 
residing out of the United Kingdom: Provided nevertheless, that 
every summons issued under this Act shall specify the kind of wild 
bird in respect of which an offence has been committed, and that 
not more than one summons shall be issued for the same offence. 
3. Where any person shall be found offending against this Act, 
it shall be lawful for any person to require the person so offending 
to give his Christian name, surname, and place of abode, and in case 
the person offending shall, after being so required, refuse to give his 
real name or place of abode, or give an untrue name or place of 
abode, he shall be liable, on being convicted of any such offence 
before a justice of the peace or the sheriff, to forfeit and pay, in 
addition to the penalties imposed by section two, such sum of 
money not exceeding ten shillings as to the convicting justice or 
sheriff shall seem meet. 
4. 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 
