Other persons possessing game or keeping a
greyhound or setting dogs or guns or other devices to kill game
must forfeit them and five pounds.
Anyone killing or attempting to kill by shooting any house dove or
pigeon shall forfeit 20s. or do hard labor for one to three
months. Excepted are owners of dove cotes or pigeon houses erected
for the preservation and breeding of such.
A gamekeeper or other officer of a forest or park who kills a deer
without consent of the owner must forfeit 50 pounds per deer, to
be taken by distress if necessary, and if he can't pay, he is to
be imprisoned for three years without bail and set in the pillory
for two hours on some market day. A later penalty was
transportation for seven years. Anyone pulling down walls of any
forest or park where deer are kept without the consent of the
owner must forfeit 30 pounds and if he can't pay, he is to be
imprisoned for one year without bail and spend one hour in the
pillory on market day. Later, the killing of deer in open fields
or forests was given the same penalties instead of only the
monetary penalty prescribed by former law (former chapter). The
penalty for a second offense was given as transportation for seven
years. Anyone beating or wounding a gamekeeper with an intent to
kill any deer in an open or closed place was to be transported for
seven years.
Anyone who apprehends and prosecutes a person guilty of burglary
or felonious breaking and entering any house in the day time shall
be rewarded 40 pounds in addition to being discharged from parish
and ward offices.
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