Country Sports: A Guide to Angling, Shooting, Hunting, Coursing, and All Other Leading Amusements of Rural Life |
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Page 94 - ... and give this Act and the special matter in evidence at any trial to be had thereupon...
Page 68 - See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings: Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground. Ah! what avail his glossy, varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted wings, and breast that flames with gold?
Page 94 - ... notice in writing of such appeal, and of the cause and matter thereof, within three days after such conviction, and seven clear days at the least before such sessions, and shall also either remain in custody until the sessions, or enter into a recognizance with two sufficient sureties...
Page 93 - ... shall think fit, and that in default of payment at the time appointed such person shall be imprisoned in the common gaol or house of correction (with or without hard labour), as to the...
Page 109 - BEETON'S SCIENCE, ART, AND LITERATURE : A Dictionary of Universal Information ; comprising a complete Summary of the Moral, Mathematical, Physical, and Natural Sciences ; a plain Description of the Arts ; an interesting Synopsis of Literary Knowledge, with the Pronunciation and Etymology of every leading term. The work has been with great care Revised, Enlarged, and newly Illustrated.
Page 93 - And be it enacted, That the prosecution for every offence punishable upon summary conviction by virtue of this Act shall be commenced within three calendar months after the commission of the offence...
Page 88 - Certificates shall authorize any Gamekeeper to sell any Game, except on the Account and with the written Authority of the Master whose Gamekeeper he is ; but that any such Gamekeeper selling any Game not on the Account and with the written Authority of such Master may be proceeded against under this Act in the same Manner, to all Intents and Purposes, as if he had no Game Certificate whatsoever.
Page 109 - BEETON'S ILLUSTEATED ENCYCLOPEDIA will be found complete and authentic information respecting the Physical and Political Geography, Situation, Population, Commerce and Product1ons, as well as the principal Public Buildings of every Country and Important or Interesting Town In the World, and the leading Historical Events with which they have been connected ; concise Biographies Of Eminent Persons, from the most remote times to the present day; brief Sketches of the leading features of Egyptian, Greek,...