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under these conditions might be a not despicable item in the revenues of 

 the Protectorate. 



The more important clauses of the Game Kegulations at jjresent in 

 force in the Uganda Protectorate are the following : — 



Preservation of Game. 



1. In these regulations : — 



" Hunt, kill, or capture " means hunting, killing, or capturing by any method, and 

 includes every attempt to kill or capture. " Hunting " includes molesting. 



" Game " means any animal mentioned in any of the schedules. 



" Public officer " means a European oiKcer in the public service of the Uganda or 

 East Africa Protectorates, or the superior establishment of the Uganda Piaihvay. 



" Native " means any native of Africa, not being of Euroi)ean or American race 

 or })a rentage. 



■' Settler " means a person for the time being resident in the Protectorate not being 

 a public otHcer or a native, and includes a trader. 



"Sportsman" means a person who visits the Protectorate wholly or i)artly for 

 si:)orting purposes, not being a public officer, or settler, or native. 



" Collector '' means the i>rincipal civil officer in charge of a district of the 

 Protectorate. 



' General Provisions. 



■2. No person, unless he is authorised by a special licence in that behalf, shall hunt, 

 kill, or capture any of the animals mentioned in the first schedule. 



3. No person, unless he is so authorised by a special licence under these regula- 

 tions, shall hunt, kill, or capture any animal of the kinds mentioned in the second 

 schedule if the animal be (a) immature, or (Ij) a female accompanied by its young. 



4. No person, unless he is authorised under these regulations, shall hunt, kill, or 

 cajiture any animal mentioned in the third schedule. 



5. The Commissioner may, if he thinks fit, by Proclamation, declare that the name 

 of any species, variety, or sex of animal (whether beast or bird), not mentioned in any 

 schedule hereto, shall be added to a particular schedule, or that the name of any 

 species or variety mentioned or included in one schedule shall be transferred to another 

 schedule, and, if he thinks fit, apply such declaration to the whole of the Protectorate 

 or restrict it to any district or districts in which he thinks it expedient that the animal 

 should be protected. 



6. No ])erson shall within the Protectorate sell, or purchase, or offer or expose 

 for sale, any ostrich eggs, or any head, horns, skin, feathers, or fiesh of any animal 

 mentioned in any of the schedules, unless such ostrich or animal shall have been kept 

 in a domesticated state, and no such person shall knowingly store, jtack, convey, or 

 export any ])art of any animal which he has reason to believe has been killed or rajitured 

 in contravention of these regulations. 



7. If any person attempts to sell or otherAvise transfer within the Protectorate, or 

 to export from the Protectorate, any female elephant's tusk or any male elephant's tusk 

 weighing less than 11 lbs., or any pieces of ivory Avhich, in the opinion of the Court, 

 formed part of a female elephant's tusk or of a male elephant's tusk under 11 lbs. in 

 weight, he shall be guilty of an ofi'ence against these regulations, and the tusks or ]»arts 

 of a tusk shall l^e confiscated by the authorities of the Protectorate. 



