THE SEA-GULL PRESERVATION ACT, 1867 291 
and it shall be sufficient in a prosecution under this Act to prove 
with respect to the nature of the bird, that it is commonly known 
in this Island by any of the foregoing designations. 
3. Any person who within this Island or within the jurisdiction Gulls and eggs 
of the Admiralty Court! of this Island, shall wilfully kill or bedestroyea.. 
destroy any gull, or shall take from the nest an egg of any gull, or 
shall wilfully break, spoil, or destroy an egg of any gull in the 
nest, shall for each offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding 
five pounds. 
4. Any person who shall have in his possession any dead gull, Evidence. 
or any undressed plumage having the appearance of being recently 
stripped from any gull, or an egg of any gull, shall be deemed to 
have killed or taken such gull or egg as aforesaid, unless he shall 
prove the contrary. 
5. Every penalty or forfeiture payable under this Act shall be Recovery of 
. penalties. 
proceeded for and recoverable as in the case of summary proceed- 
ings taken under the Petty Sessions Act, 1864,? and at the suit or 
instance of any harbour-master, constable, or any other person, . 
before a High Bailiff or a Justice of the Peace, anything in the 
said Act to the contrary notwithstanding. 
6. One moiety of every penalty recovered under this Act shall Moiety of penalty 
be paid to the informer. Provided always, that it shall be lawful °°" 
for the Governor, in his discretion, to remit, mitigate, or suspend 
the payment of such penalty. 
Royal Assent dated 29th February 1868. 
Promulgated 6th July 1868. 
1 See the Isle of Man Judicature Act, by which jurisdiction of the Court of 
Admiralty is transferred to Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice of the Isle of 
Man. 
2 See the Petty Sessions Act, 1864. 
