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deavor to retain the friendship rather than incur the hostility of their fellow 

 countrymen. No complaints have since been received, and it is, therefore, 

 toped that the letter has accomplished the obiect for which it was written. 



Regulations. 



Another step in the direction of better preservation has been the pass- 

 ing of more stringent regulations, as follows : 



FISHERY LAWS AND REGUATIONS. 



The following is an extract from the Canada Gazette of Saturday, 11th June, 

 T904: 



At the Government House at Ottawa. 



Monday, the 30th day of May, 1904. 



Present : 



His Excellency the Governor-General in Council. 



The Governor-General in Council is pleased, in virtue of the provisions of section 

 16 of The Fisheries Act, chapter 95 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, to order that 

 the General Fishery Regulations for the Province of Ontario, established by the Order 

 in Council of the 18th day of July, 1889, shall be and the same are hereby amended 

 by adding thereto the following sections : — 



9. No one shall fish for, catch or kill in any of the waters of the Province, in one 

 day by angling, or shall carry away a greater number than eight small or large-mouthad 

 black bass, four maskinonge, twelve pickerel (dore), or four lake trout. 



10. No one shall fish for, catch or kill, in any of the waters of the Province, in 

 one day by angling, or shall carry away a greater number of speckled trout or brook 

 trout than in the aggregate shall weigh more than ten pounds, and no greater num- 

 ber than thirty speckled trout or brook trout, though said number weigh less than 

 ten pounds. 



No small or large-mouthed black bass less than ten inches in length ; no speckled 

 trout less than six inches in length ; no pickerel (dore) less than fifteen inches in length 

 or no maskinonge less than thirty inches in length, shall be retained or kept out of 

 the water, sold, offered or exposed for sale or had in possession ; but anyone who takes 

 or catches any of the fish mentioned of less than the minimum measurement named, — 

 which measurement shall be from the point of the nose to the centre of the tail,— 

 shall immediately return such fish to the water from which it was taken, alive and 

 uninjured. 



12. The sale and export of speckled trout, black bass and maskinonge, is herebv 

 prohibited for a period of five years from the date of this Order in Council, provided , 

 however, that any person from a foreign country, fishing in the waters of the Province, 

 and applying and paying for an angler's permit, may, upon leaving the Province, 

 when the same are accompanied by him, take with him the lawful catch of two days' 

 fishing. 



The Governor-General in Council is further pleased to order that any previous 

 Orders in Council which are in conflict with these regulations, be rescinded in so far 

 as the Province of Ontario is affected. 



JOHN J. McGEE, 



Clerk of the Privy Council 



Mortality in Lake Scugog. 



The severe winter of 1903-4 was disastrous to the 'fish in Lake Scugog, 

 thousands being suffocated by the freezing of the water in some places to the 

 bottom of the lake, which was several feet lower than in previous years. 

 Timely instructions were given this year to have airholes made at a number 

 of points as a precaution against a recurrence of such a loss. 



