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shoot for them, in the capacity of gamekeepers, or for the pretended purpose of supplying their table with game, be it hereby further ordered and declared that such Hottentot, or free person, shall not be allowed to shoot upon any other lands than what are bona fide possessed by his master or employer, unless he be provided with a written permission from the proprietor or occupier of such land, not belonging to his master or employer, as he may wish to shoot upon, under a penalty of one hundred rix-dollars; such fine to be recovered of his said master or employer, together with all costs and expenses attending the prosecution, on such Hottentot or free person being convicted of the offence.
13. That as the employing of the Sabbath-day for the amusement of shooting is a most immoral and profligate practice, it is therefore hereby strictly forbidden to shoot or kill any kind of game, at any season of the year, on a Sunday; and every person, without exception, hereafter convicted of offending herein shall be fined in a penalty of one hundred rix-dollars for the first offence, and three hundred rix-dollars for each repetition after a first conviction.
14. That no live game shall, at any time, nor dead game, between the 1st July and the 30th November of each year, both days included, be suffered to pass by, or be carried through the toll or barrier gates, without a special permission from the governor for the time being, under a penalty of fifty rix-dollars, to be recovered of the person in whose custody or possession such game shall be found, together with all costs and expenses attending the prosecution to conviction, or six months' imprisonment, in failure of pay- ment thereof.
15. All transgressions against this proclamation shall be respectively prosecuted before the sitting commissioner from the worshipful court of justice or the landdrost and commissioned beemraden of the district in which the offence shall have been committed by the competent officer of such district, and the sentence given in such case shall be subject to rehearing and appeal; provided the defendant, should he feel himself aggrieved thereby, previously complies with the sentence in the first instance, and that such compliance, as well as the deposit of the penalty, for a frivolous rehearing or appeal having been made, shall appear to the court above.
16. All prosecutions resulting from a contravention of this proclamation shall be carried on summarily; and the judge, should he in this particular case feel himself otherwise sufficiently instructed to pass a sentence of condemnation, shall not be bound to the necessity of requiring the oath of two consonant witnesses-a groundless plea, though eagerly resorted to, in case where the offence has been committed, without being witnessed by a plurality of impartial persons.
17. All contraventions of this proclamation shall be prosecuted by the competent officer within three months from the time the offence shall have been committed; after the expiration of which period all right of prosecution shall cease.
18. And in order as much as possible to encourage the preservation of game, the following rewards shall be given to all such persons as destroy vermin, or other noxious animals, namely:
rds, sks.
25 0
AND ALSO AS TO PRESERVATION OF GAME.
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no person may plead ignorant hereof, this shall be published and affixed in the usual God save the King.
manner.
Given under my hand and seal, at the Cape of Good Hope, the twenty-first
day of March, One thousand eight hundred and twenty-two.
By His Excellency's command,
(Signed) (Signed)
C. Binn, Secretary.
C. H. SOMERSET.
AMENDMENT OF GAME LAW.—ELEPHANTS.
(Government Advertisement.)
Notice is hereby given, that in consequence of a representation made to his Excellency the Governor of the injury sustained by inhabitants of the Under Bosjesmans River division, from the numerous elephants in those parts, His Excellency has been pleased to rescind such part of the proclamation of the 21st March last as prohibits the destruc- tion of those animals under a penalty of five hundred rix-dollars in each case.
Cape of Good Hope, 23rd August, 1822.
By command of His Excellency the Governor,
(Signed)
C. BIRD, Secretary,
ELANDS.
AMENDMENT OF GAME LAW.—
PROCLAMATION by His Excellency General the Right Hon. Lord Charles Henry Somerset, &c., &c.
Whereas, it has been represented to me to be necessary to preserve the few elands which are left in the George district, and which have met with great protection from the landed proprietors in the vicinity of the Attaquas Kloof, but have lately been wantonly dispersed and destroyed by some evil-disposed persons: It is, therefore, hereby ordered that the Regulation which gives protection to the hippopotamus and boutebuck (that the 5th Article of the Proclamation of the 21st March, of the year 1822), shall be henceforward also made applicable to the beautiful and scarce species of deer called eland, found in the George district, of which all persons are called upon to take due notice, as the penalty for contravening the same will be most rigidly enforced. that no person may plead ignorance hereof, this shall be published and affixed in the usual manner.
God save the King.
And
Given under my hand and seal, at the Cape of Good Hope, this fourteenth
day of March, One thousand eight hundred and twenty-three.
By His Excellency's command,
(Signed) (Signed)
C. BIRD, Secretary.
C. II, SOMERSET,
MEDITER-
BANKAN
COLONIES.
For every tiger
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wild dog
wild cat
33
mouschound
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5
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These sums shall be paid out of the treasuries of the respective districts in which the vermin or noxious animals shall have been killed, on a wrtificate from the field cornet or wardmaster of the district, "that the head of such animal has been produced to him," which certificate must be applied for and obtained, within eight days after the animal, for which the reward is promised, has been destroyed. [Repealed, vide Ordnance No. 3 and Ordnance No. 45.]
19. The half of all fines recovered in consequence of contravention of this proclama- tion shall be paid to the informer, and the other half to the treasury of the district in which the offence shall have been committed, in order to defray the rewards for the destruction of vermin, and other noxious animals, as mentioned in the foregoing article. 20. From the limitations contained in this proclamation, hunting with hounds is exempted, which, as in nowise tending to the destruction of game, is to be allowed, on the same footing as heretofore, provided it be conducted by hunting clubs established under the sanction of His Excellency the Governor for the the time being. And that
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