§ MR. JACOB BRIGHTasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether he has observed that certain retail fishmongers and poulterers in Manchester have been summoned under the Wild Fowl Act of 1880 for selling wood pigeons, and that they have been reprimanded by the stipendiary magistrate and ordered to pay costs; and, whether, if it be unlawful to sell birds which it is lawful to kill, he will undertake to amend the Law?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURTSir, the matter stands in rather a singular position, as often happens when an Act of Parliament is manufactured in this House. It was the intention, no doubt, when the Bill was in Committee to have exempted the owners and occupiers of land from the provisions of the Bill. If the law is as described, it should be amended.