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An Act to prevent Unlawful Hunting. 1822 343 (1822.6)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0076 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI. 24. or played for, unless such person be authorized by law, and whosoever shall offend herein, shall forteit the whole sum of money proposed to be raised by such lottery, raffling or play- ing, to be recovered by action of debt, in the name of any person who will sue for the same, or by indictment or infor- mation in the name of the state, in either case for the use and benefit of the literary fund. COWLES MEAD, Speaker of the House of Representatives. DAVID DICKSON, Lieutenant-Governor and President of the Senate. Approved: June the 18th, 1822. WALTER LEAKE. AN ACT, to prevent Unlawful Hunting. SEc. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen. thtives of the State of Mississippi, in General Assembly convened, That it shall not be lawful for, any person or persons to hunt with fire in the night time, at any place within this state, ex- cept within his own enclosures; and any person convicted thereof before any justice of the peace of the county wherein the offence was committed, by the oath of one or more credi- ble witnesses, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence, twenty dollars, to be recovered with costs, by warrant of the justice before whom the conviction shall be had, for the use of the county in which the suit may be brought. And in case any person or persons so convicted, shall refuse or neglect to pay such fine, it shall be the duty of thejustice before whom he or they shall have been. convicted, to commit such person or persons to the jail of the county where the offence shall have been committed, there to remain without bail or mainprize, any term not less than one, nor more three months. SEc 2. If any person hunting with fire in 'he night time,. shall kill or wound any horse, mare, colt, neat cattle, hog, sheep, or other domestic animal, not being his own, the per- son so offending shall be liable to an action at law for double damages, to the person aggrieved, in addition to the above penalties. SEC. 3. Ifany slave or slaves shall be di-covered lire hunt- ing, in manner aforesaid, such slave or slaves, on convin ion thereof in manner aforesaid, before an) justice of the peace for the county wherein the offence mnay have been comnlh'd, shall by order of the said justice receive thirty lashes, well

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