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NEWFOUNDLAND. 



single payment, or may obtain a grant in 

 & simple on 'payment of $(',.000. Where more 

 than one apply for the same location it shall be 

 Ranted *&* first erecting boundary posts and 

 applying within two months thereof tor a grant. 

 Erases entitle the holder to -1 ls 

 in his location. On the treaty coast the rental 

 of mineral lands is to be one fifth of those above, 

 and holders of licenses on that part o the island 

 -hall applv within one year for a new lease when 

 previous 'payments will be accepted as far as 

 they go. 



by a stipendiary magistrate, a warden, or Min- 

 ister of Marine and Fisheries on payment of $1 

 and the fee for the particular license taken. The 

 fee for license to take two stags and one doe is 

 $40; to take three stags and one doe, $50; and 

 five stags and two does, $80, The first license 

 is good for four weeks, the second for six weeks, 

 and the third for two months. Nondomiciled 

 o-uides are not to be employed unless licensed. 

 The fee for such license is $25. No guide or 

 member of a hunting party shall kill caribou ex- 

 cept as part of the number specified in the license. 



PLACENTIA BAY, NEWFOUNDLAND. 



The next most important is the act that relates 

 to the constitution, incorporation and registra- 

 tion, management and winding up of companies, 

 liabilities of shareholders, powers of courts, etc. 

 It provides for its application to existing com- 

 panies, which must register under the new law 

 within six months from the passing thereof (July 

 1, 1809). 



The act respecting the extradition of criminals 

 provides that a warrant for the apprehension of 

 fugitive criminals may be issued by a stipendiary 

 magistrate in St. John's on an order from the 

 Governor in other places, on complaint but the 

 Governor to whom the issue of such warrant must 

 IK- communicated may order release. If a stipen- 

 diary magistrate apprehending a fugitive criminal 

 do not receive an order from the Governor in a 

 reasonable time, he shall discharge such criminal. 



Important changes have been made in the game 

 laws by an amendment of the act for the preser- 

 vation of deer. Jn future caribou may not be 

 limited from Feb. 1 to July 15 or from Oct. 1 to 

 Oct. 20 in one year. No one not licensed under 

 this act shall kill more than three stags and one 

 doe caribou. Persons not domiciled may not hunt 

 caribou without a license, which may be issued 



Export of caribou carcass or skin is prohibited 

 except to licensee, who may export what he may 

 have killed under his license, entering the same 

 at the customhouse. Pits and snares for caribou 

 are not allowed, under penalty of $50, nor are 

 they to be hunted with dogs or with hatchet or 

 other contrivance except firearms. 



Another act authorizes a loan of $100,000 for 

 encouragement of agriculture, to be expended in 

 bonuses on clearing land. 



An amendment of the revenue act imposes 10 

 per cent, additional on the duties collected under 

 the revenue act of 1898. It provides that an ex- 

 cise duty of 1 per cent, a pound shall be paid 

 on all oleomargarine manufactured, and 27^ cents 

 on tobacco manufactured. 



By another act the Governor's salary is in- 

 creased to $10,000 per annum. 



A loan of $146,000 for the erection of light- 

 houses, beacons, fog alarms, public wharves, pub- 

 lic buildings, repairs, and improvements is au- 

 thorized by another act. 



An act for the amendment of the law relating 

 to trial by jury provides for special juries in 

 criminal and civil cases. 



An act relating to light dues provides that 



