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of age from carrying a gun, as they shoot at anything they see, law or no law. 

 He would also ask for a license fee of $4 per annum to be imposed on all those 

 over twenty-one, who desire to carry a gun. He thinks the Game Laws should 

 be amended to have the seasons for everything come in on the same day and go out 

 on the same day. 



Overseer J. D. Campbell, of Sylvan, reports that the law has been well ob- 

 gerved in his division, and the fish were of a better quality than in former years. 

 He would advise that peddlars sliould have licenses, say $2 per year. 



There are two fishways in his division, botli in good repair. 



Ducks are very plentiful, also black squirrel. Partridge and quail are scarce. 

 There are quite a number of hunters, but all observe the law well. 



Overseer John Crotty, of Bothwell, reports that there was a decrease in the 

 catch of fish, on account of the fishermen not being allowed to export their coarse 

 fish, and therefore, not so much attention was given to fishing as formerly. 



There were no fish exported; all were used for home consumption. 



No abuses exist. 



The close searon has been strictly observed, to the best of his knowledge. 



No violations of the Act came to his knowledge, therefore there were no fines 

 or confiscations. 



There are no mills in his district, so no injury done from that source. 



No fishways in his dirtrict. 



The Game Laws were strictly observed. Rumors reached him of wrong doing, 

 but On examination they proved unfounded, as no one was willing to lay a complaint. 



Overseer Revii Laframhoise, of Canard Biver. reports that he has visited tlie 

 fisheries in his division on different occasions, and he is satisfied that the licensees 

 have observed the laws. He has had but one case of illegal fishing, and thinks they 

 were poachers. He seized the hoop nets, but did not get the owner. The whitefish 

 have been plentiful, but other kinds of fish have been about the same as last year. 



Ducks have not been quite as plentiful this last spring as last year, but he 

 noticed about the beginning of September, that grey ducks were very pentiful in 

 the marshes. He noticed a few bevys of quail about the latter part of August, 

 As for black and grey squirrels, they have almost disappeared. Muskrat have been 

 very plentiful last winter, and the price very high. He would recommend that a 

 small fee be charged to those who would want to hunt them; it might do away 

 with the destroying of muskrat houses. 



Overseer Richard Little, of Wallacehurg, reports that the angling for black 

 bass, pickerel, and maskinonge in his district has not been as good during the past 

 year as it was in the reason of 1909; no other game fish are taken in the waters in 

 his district. 



The tourist traffic has been up to the usual average. 



It has been reported to him by persons, who he has every reason to believe to be 

 truthful, that some of the Walpole Island Indians have been seining on the ba.-5s 

 spawning grounds at night, and sold their catch, some two tons of black bass, on 

 the United States side of the International Boundary. 



On account of Walpole Island being an Indian Reserve, and thus outeide of 

 his jurisdiction, he is unable to do anything to prevent such fishing from being 

 done, but he would strongly recommend that some means be taken to prevent a 

 repetition of such methods of taking and selling bass. 



