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13. — (1) No person shall fish for, catch, take or kill in such ?1°^'%**^''- 

 waters any kind or species of fish during the " close season," clos°8ea8on°^ 

 as by law or regulation the same is fixed or determined for or 

 in respect of that particular kind or species of fish, or buy, sell 

 or have in his possession at any time after the expiration of 

 five days from the beginning of the close season in any year 

 any of such kinds or species of fish caught in such 

 waters under a penalty of not less than $10 nor more than 

 $30, and a further penalty of $1 for each fish so caught or 

 taken or found in possession after the expiration of such five 

 days. 



14. — (1) The Lieutenant Go vernor-in-Council may be regu- Licenses to 

 lation provide for the issue of licenses, free of charge, to frontier Indians to*^ 

 settlers in any of the said districts or in any new part of the use night 

 Province, or to any Indians residing on any reserve, or to any ^^^^^' ®*°" 

 band of Indians residing on a reserve, to take fish in such waters 

 other than speckled or brook trout or black or other bass, by net 

 or night or set line with not more than five set lines, exclusively 

 for use and consumption by their own families, and any settler 

 or other person to whom such license is issued who shall sell or 

 barter fish caught under such license shall be subject to a 

 penalty and to forfeiture of his license. 



(2) Provided nevertheless that nothing herein contained 

 shall prejudicially affect any rights specially reserved to or 

 conferred upon Indians by any treaty or regulation in that 

 behalf made by the Government of Canada nor shall anytliing 

 herein apply to or prejudicially affect the rights of Indians in 

 any portion of the territory of the Province as to which their 

 claims have not been surrendered or extinguished. 



15. The Fish and Game Commissioners who may be here- Fish and game 

 after appointed shall have a general oversight or supervision commissioners 

 over the fisheries of the Province, subject to any existing Acts v° j'^^o/fiah- 

 of the Legislature, and to such regulations as shall from time eriea. 



to time be made by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council. But 

 nothing herein contained nor the appointment of such Com- 

 missioners or the assignment of duties to them shall abrogate 

 or interfere with the powers and authority conferred upon the 

 Lieutenant-Governor or the Lieutenant-Governor in Council or 

 the Commissioner of Crown Lands by the Ontario Fisheries „ ci. .. 



. . "> Rev. Stat. 



Act. . c. 32. 



16. Subject to such regulations, such Commissioners shall 

 examine or cause to be examined dams and all other obstruc- dutTes'^of com- 

 tions existing in rivers and streams flowing over or upon missioners. 

 the lands of the Crown, and prescribe the necessity of 

 iishways and the location, form and capacity thereof, 

 examine into and report upon the best methods of introducing 



and disseminating valuable species of fish into waters where 

 they do not exist, and of protecting and increasmg the produc- 

 tion of such valuable species as are to be found in the waters 



