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lawful to use sunken punts or batteries, or night lights.^ No eggs of any kind 

 of the birds above enumerated are allowed to be taken or destroyed at any time. 

 No beaver, muskrat, mink, sable, otter or fisher, is to be taken or trapped be- 

 tween the 1 st of May and the 15th of November.* There is also a clause pro- 

 tecting any particular kind of game that may be imported by parties desirous 

 of breeding the same. The fine varies from $2 to $25 for each head of game 

 illegally killed, and in default of payment offenders are imprisoned in a com- 

 mon jail for a term not exceeding thirty days. 



Speckled trout can be taken between the 1st of January and the 1st of Oc- 

 tober, but only by angling by hand with hook and line. Whitefish or salmon- 

 trout are not to be taken by any means between the 19th of November and 

 the 1st of December, nor by means of any kind of seine between the 30th of 

 May and the 1st of August. The close seasons for bass, pickerel, maskinonge', 

 and other fish are to be fixed by the governor in Council, to suit different lo- 

 calities. 



In Quebec, the close season for elk, moose, cariboo, deer, fawn, or hare, is 

 from the 1 st of February to the 1st of September ; for grouse, ptarmigan, part- 

 ridge, woodcock, or snipe, between the 1st of March and the 1st of September. 

 No wild swan, wild goose, or any kind of wild duck is allowed to be shot at, 

 trapped, or killed between the 20th of May and the 1st of September, except 

 in that part of the province east of the Brandy Pots, where the inhabitants 

 are allowed, for food only, to kill the same between the 1st of September and 

 the 1st of June. Neither is it lawful to kill any of the above between sunset 

 and sunrise. All the game animals and birds mentioned in the act except 

 hares and partridges are protected from trapping. No eggs of any of the 

 kinds of birds mentioned, or any species of wild-fowl, are allowed to be dis- 

 turbed, injured, or taken. 



No lynx, wild cat, mink, or marten to be taken or killed between the 15th 

 of April and the 1st of November ; no otter between the 1st of May and the 

 1st of November ; no beaver between the 30th of April and the 1st of Sep- 

 tember ; no muskrat between the 1st of June and the 2fet of October. Nor 

 shall any person buy, sell, or have in his or her possession any unseasonable 

 skin of any of the said animals. 



Fines vary from $1 to $50, and in default of immediate payment the penal- 

 ty is imprisonment in the common jail for a term not exceeding three months. 

 No proceeding under this act can be set aside by certiorari, an appeal only 

 lying to the Circuit Court of the chief place of the district wherein the offense 

 was committed. The jurisdiction is very summary, and the general provis- 

 ions very stringent. No kind of trout (or lunge) can be taken between the 

 1 st of October and the 1 st of January ; whitefish and salmon-trout are not 

 to be taken in any way between the 19th of November and the 1st of Decem- 

 ber, nor by means of any kind of seine between the 31st of July and the 1st 

 of December; between the 31st of October and the 31st of December it is 

 unlawful to kill shad or whitefish in Missisquoi Bay, Lake Champlain ; sal- 

 mon can not be fished for in Ontario and Quebec, or the River Restigouche 

 (N. B.), between the 31st of July and the 1st of May, except by fly surface- 

 * The close season for hare is from the 1st of March to the 1st of September. 



