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it comes from, on instruction of the Minister he returns 

 the animal, or the skin, to the country or province in 

 which it was killed. This law has been productive of 

 good results. We have been working in cooperation with 

 the sister Provinces of Ontario and New Brunswick, and 

 animals killed in these respective provinces out of season 

 have been seized and returned to the province in which 

 they were killed. The government of the province con- 

 cerned may then take action against the party responsible 

 for the infraction of the law. A year or two ago one of 

 our citizens living in the Province of Quebec near the 

 Vermont border killed a deer on American territory. In- 

 structions were given to send that deer back to the State 

 of Vermont. If this law were applied by all provinces 

 and by all states, I am sure that poaching would be 

 stopped. An international law as between the United 

 States and Canada would, I am confident, bring about 

 splendid results along these lines. If, for instance, the 

 customs officers on both sides of the line were given au- 

 thority to seize the skin of any wild animal killed out of 

 season when an attempt was made to ship it across the 

 border, and if they would seize also any skins not bearing 

 the tags or stamps required by the laws of the province 

 or state whence they came — if these skins could be seized 

 and returned to the government of the state or province 

 in which they were killed, we would go a long way towards 

 preventing poachers from sending from one country to the 

 other or from one province to the other, the skins of ani- 

 mals taken illegally. 



Mr. Chairman, I wish to express my delight at 

 meeting again some of the delegates from the United 

 States whom I had the pleasure of meeting a few years 

 ago in New York, and later in St. Paul, Minn. I do not 

 know whether I am authorized to do so here at the federal 

 capital, but I should like, sir, as a Canadian to say to our 



