then, and in every such case, every such person shall forfeit, for every such offence, the sum of ten pounds, to be recovered, levied, and paid, in such manner and by such means as other penalties mentioned in this Schedule may be recovered, levied, and paid.

XV. "The commissioners or justice, before whom any offender shall be convicted, shall cause the said conviction to be made out in the manner and form following, or in any other form of words to the like effect (mutatis mutandis); that is to say:

"was duly convicted by me [or us] of [here state

"the offence] and adjudged to pay the sum of

"acting in the execution of the acts relating to "assessed taxes for the district of

And every such conviction shall be entered and registered upon the books of assessment of the commissioners of the district where the offence was committed;

committed; and after such entry and registry shall be transmitted to the Court of Appeal as herein. directed, to be filed there of record; and the said conviction or entry of the same, in the said books of assessment, or any examined copy thereof, shall be received in evidence before the respective commissioners for executing this act, in all matters relating to the duties contained in this Schedule; and no conviction of such commissioners or justice shall be removeable by any process whatever, into any other Court of Law or Equity, or be subject to revision in any manner other than as aforesaid.

XVI. "All penalties and shares of penalties imposed by any, recovered or paid under the authority of the rules contained in this Schedule, shall be added to the first or supplementary assessment of the parish or place where the offence shall be committed (as the case shall require), and shall be paid to the collector or collectors of the duties contained in this Schedule for such parish or place, to be by him or them accounted for in the same manner, and paid to the receiver-general, at the same times as the duties contained in this act are to be accounted for and paid, and shall and may be distributed, apportioned, and applied,

"Exemption

Exemption from the duties in Schedule (L.)Any of the Royal Family."

That part of the preceding statute, which enacts› those who shall assist in any manner in the taking of Game, is in a great degree repealed by the following statute, the 54 Geo. III. c. 141.

But it appears from that statute, that those, who in any manner assist a game-keeper, are still subject to the penalty; and if two or more go together, and assist each other, not one having taken out a certificate, they will each be liable to the whole penalty. The following are the exact words of the enacting clause of that statute: viz. "It is hereby enacted, That such of the duties, provisions, and penalties, contained in the said Schedule of the said act, as relates to persons aiding or assisting, or intending to aid or assist, in the taking or killing of any Game, or any woodcocks, snipe, quail, landrail, or coney, in the manner hereinafter mentioned, shall, from and after the passing of this act, severally cease and determine. Provided that the act of aiding and assisting as aforesaid, and in the said act mentioned, shall be done in the company or presence, and for the use of another person, who shall duly have obtained a certificate in his own

right,

right, according to the directions of the said act; and who therein shall, by virtue of such certificate, then and there use his own dog, gun, net, or other engine, for the taking or killing of such Game, woodcock, snipe, quail, landrail, or coney, and who shall not act therein, by virtue of any deputation or appointment.

CHAP.

CHAP. XVI.

LAWS RESPECting dogs, sPRING-GUNS, AND MEN

TRAPS.

THE laws upon these subjects are intimately connected with those contained in the preceding Chapters. In this treatise I trust I have fully proved that all Game is private property, and that it has been held and decided to be so from the first page of our system of laws to the present day. Many unacquainted with the general principles of law, cannot reconcile this uncontrovertible doctrine with their notions of property, because it is not felony to steal Game; but they might as well doubt or assert, that there is no property in á dog or a cat, because it is no felony to steal them.

Till a late act of Parliament was passed, no one was subject to any punishment whatever for stealing a dog. It was thought that retribution or a compensation in damages would be sufficient to prevent injuries