JUSTICES may grant _warrants_ to search for heads, skins, &c. of stolen deer, and for toils, snares, &c. and persons having such in their possession, to forfeit from _ten_ to _thirty_ pounds, at the discretion of the justices. Persons unlawfully setting nets or snares, to forfeit, for the first offence, from _five_ to _ten_ pounds; and for every other offence, from _ten_ to _twenty_ pounds. Persons pulling down pales or fences of any forest, chase, park, paddock, wood, &c. subject to the penalties annexed to the first offence for killing deer. _Dogs_, _guns_, and _engines_, may be seized by the PARK-KEEPERS; and persons _resisting_, shall be transported for seven years. PENALTIES may be levied by _distress_; in default of which, offenders to be committed for _twelve months_.
Persons _disguised_, and _in arms_, appearing in any forest, park, paddock, &c. and killing red or _fallow deer_, deemed felons without benefit of clergy. Prosecutions limited to twelve months from the time of the offence committed. Destroying goss, furze, and fern, in forests and chases, being the covert for deer, is liable to a penalty from _forty_ shillings to _five_ pounds; to be levied by distress; and if no distress, the offender to be committed to the county gaol, for a time not greater than _three_ months, nor less than _one_.
DEFAULT;—a term in hunting, which custom has reduced to an abbreviation, and is in general called FAULT. The hounds, during a chase of any kind, when losing the scent, throwing up their noses, seeming at a loss, and dashing different ways, in anxious and earnest hope of recovery, are then said to be at "_a fault_." This is the very moment when the judgment of the huntsman is most required, and the soonest to be observed. Different opinions have been formed, and decisions made, respecting the proper mode of proceeding at so critical a juncture, whether to _try forward_, or to _try back_: here a great deal depends upon the GAME you are _hunting of_, and the country you are _hunting in_, which circumstances at the time can only determine. However opinions may vary upon some particular points, all seem to coincide upon others; that the ground should invariably be made good _forward_, previous to trying _back_; that a general silence should prevail, and not an unnecessary aspiration be heard, that can tend to attract the attention of a single hound from the earnest endeavours he is so busily engaged in; by which means _nineteen_ faults are hit off out of _twenty_, without greater delay, suspense, or disappointment.