GAME. 
to the sheriff, or steward, clerk of the county, person, or by any officer of the stamps, 
riding, shire, stewartry, or place where properly authorised by the commissioners, 
such "person shall reside, and annually take he shall produce his certificate : and if such 
out a certificate thereof, which must have a person shall refuse, upon the production of 
stamp duty of 35 3s. 25 Geo. III. sess. 2. the certificate of the person requiring the 
Any person counterfeiting or forging any same, to shew the certificate granted to him 
seal or stamp directed to be used by this for the like purpose; or in case of not having 
act, with intent to defraud the revenue, or such certificate to pioduce, shall refuse to 
shall utter or sell such counterfeit, on con- tell his Christian and surname, and his place 
viction thereof shall be adjudged a felon, of residence, and the name ot the county 
and shall suffer death without benefit of where his certificate was issued, oi shall 
clergy; and all provisions of former acts give in any false or fictitious name, he shall 
relative to stamp duties to be in force in forfeit 50 5 Id. Certificates do not autho- 
executins this act. 25 Geo. III. sess. 2. rize any person to shoot at, kill, take, or 
Every qualified person, shooting at, killing, 
taking, or shooting, any pheasant, partridge, 
heath-fowl, for black game, or any grouse or 
red game, or any other game, or killing, 
taking, or destroying any hare, with any 
greyhound, hound, pointer, spaniel, setting- 
dog, or other dog, without having obtained 
such certificate, shall forfeit the sum of 201. 
Id. Clerks of the peace, or their deputies, 
or the sheriff, or steward-clerks, in their 
respective counties, ridings, shires, stewart- 
ries, or places, shall, on or before Novem- 
ber 1, 1785, or sooner, if required by the 
commissioners of his Majesty’s stamp duties, 
transmit to the head office of stamps in 
London, a correct list, in alphabetic order, 
of the certificates by them issued between 
the 25th day of March in the year 1785, and 
the first of October in the same year; and 
shall also in every subsequent year, on or 
before the first of August in each year, make 
out and transmit to the stamp office in 
London correct alphabetical lists of the 
certificates so granted by them, distinguish- 
ing the duties paid on each respective cer- 
tificate so issued, and on delivery thereof, 
the receiver-general of the stamp duties 
shall pay to the clerk of the peace, &c, for 
the same, one halfpenny a name; and in 
case of neglect or refusal, or not inserting a 
full, true, and perfect account, he shall for- 
feit 205 Id. Lists may be inspected at 
the stamp office for Is. each search ; (id.) 
which lists shall once, or oftener, in every 
year be inserted in the newspapers in each 
respective county. If any qualified person, 
or one having a deputation, shall be found 
in pursuit of game, with gun, dog, or net, 
or other engine for the destruction of game, 
or taking or killing thereof, and shall be 
required to shew his certificate, by the lord 
or lady of the manor, or proprietor of the 
land whereon such person shall be using 
such gun, &c. or by any duly appointed 
gamekeeper, or by any qualified or certified 
destroy, any game, at any time, that is pro- 
hibited by law, nor give any person a right 
to shoot at, &c. unless he be duly qualified 
by law. Id. No certificate obtained un- 
der any deputation shall be pleaded or given 
in evidence, where any person shall shoot 
at, &c. any game out of the manors or 
lands for which it was given. The royal 
family are exempted from taking out certi- 
ficates for themselves or their deputies. Id. 
The duty on these certificates are now, by 
an act which is at present passing the house, 
to be had through the collectors of the as- 
sessed taxes. The above is the law now in 
force. Besides having a certificate, each 
person to kill game must be qualified by 
having a certain estate. The last general 
qualification (to use the words of Dr. Burn, 
though in fact it is the first of the acts rela- 
tive to the game ever now put in force), by 
estate or degree, to kill game is 22, 23 
Charles II. c. 25. This enacts, that every 
person not having lands or tenements of the 
clear yearly value of 1005, or on leases for 
99 years, or upwards, of the clear yearly 
value of 1505, or except the eldest son and 
heir of an esquire, or p?rson of higher de- 
gree, or owners of forests, parks, &c. in re- 
spect of such forest, park, &c, is not quali- 
fied, for himself or any other person, to 
keep guns, bows, greyhounds, &c. s. 3. 
This merely states the ^qualification ; the 
penalties and modes of proceeding are en- 
tirely changed by subsequent acts : and 
first, by 5 Ann, c. 14, which directs, that all 
former acts not thereby repealed and al- 
tered continue in force. With respect to 
offences against the game laws, we shall 
here enumerate those chiefly which fall un- 
der the cognizance of justices of the peace 
out of sessions, premising, that for brevity 
sake the following abbreviations are used; 
viz. P. denotes the penalty; R. the mode of 
recovery; A. the application of it; Ap. the 
appeal ; J. 1 or 2, and W. 1 or 2, that one 
