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The followinff Bill (imevding the foregoing Act for the Pro- 

 tection of (kime and Fiir-hraring Animals was passed hy 

 the Ontario Legislature on 14th April, 1892, subsequent 

 to the receipt of your Commissioners' report. 



CHAPTER 58. 



An Act to amend the Act for tlie Protection of Game 

 and Fur-bearing Animals. 



HER MAJESTY, by and with tlie advice and consent of the 

 Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts 

 .as follows :— 



1 — (1) No deer, elk, moose, reindeer or caribou shall be close period 

 hunted, tnken or killed between the fifteenth day of Novem- for deer, elk, 

 ber and the tirst day of November of the following year; but the ^"°^^' ®'*^- 

 period hereinbefore limited shall not as to moose, elk, reindeer 

 or caribou, apply before or until the first day of November, 1(S95, 

 and no moose, elk, reindeer, or caribou shall be hunted, taken 

 or killed before the first day of November, 1895. 



(2) No owner of any hound or other doo; known by the owner u- ,.■ -..u 



\ . , , *^ 1 111- "^ 1 1 1 Hunting with 



to be accustomed to pursue deer shall permit any such liound hounds, when 

 or other dog to run at large in any locality where deer are ^''^^^"'* 

 usually found during the period from the fifteenth day of No- 

 vember to the first day of November of the following year. 

 Any person harbouring or claiming to be the owner of such 

 hound or dog shall be deemed to be the owner theieof ; and 

 any hound or dog found running deer between the fifteenth 

 day of November and the first day of November following 

 mav be killed on sight by any person, and the person killing 

 such hound or dog shall not be liable to any penalty or dam- 

 .ages the re tor. 



(:■}) Section 17 of the said Act is repealed and the following: ^ev. Stat., c. 



. . ''■'1 s 17 re- 



substituted therefor : — pealed. ' 



17. No one person shall during any one year or season kill Limit of num- 



or take more in all than two deer, elk, moose, reindeer or cari- i^er-.f d^-^r, 



bou. But this shall not apply in the case of deer which are one'person 



the pi'ivate property of any person and which have been killed '"'^y **''^- 



or taken by such pei'son or by his direction or with his consent, 



in or upon liis own lands or [u-emises. 



(4) Hunting or killing deer by what is known as " crust- Certain kinds 

 inof " or while thev are " yardinof" is hereby declared unlawful. "' 'y","'""f 



*= J ./ o ./ prohibited. 



(5) No fawn shall at any time be hunted, killed, taken or Killing of 

 possessed ; possession of a fawn after being killed shall be pre- |j-^Vted^'"" 

 suniptive evidence of a violation of this sub-section. 



(fi) No common carrier, or other person shall transport or 

 have in posse-sioa for that pur|)oso, in this Province, after 

 the same has been killed, any wild deer or the raw skin there- 

 of or anv venison save only from the first to the 22nd day of 



