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ing purposes, shall approach or enter upon the private grounds of the 

 owner or owners of the said animals within a distance of twenty-five 

 yards from the outer fence or enclosure within which the pens or dens 

 of the said animals are located, and upon which said fence or enclosure 

 notices forbidding trespassing on the said premises are kept posted, so 

 as to be plainly discernible at the said distance of not less than twenty- 

 five yards. ISTo offence will be committed, however, by any neighbour- 

 ing proprietor or occupant who approaches within such distance in the 

 execution of work recognized or imposed by law or by municipal by-laws. 



2. Any person convicted of an offence against Section 1 of this 

 Act, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars nor less than five 

 dollars and in default of payment of such fine and the costs to imprison- 

 ment for a term not exceeding three months nor less than one month. 



3. Every one is guilty of an offence and liable to the penalty here- 

 after provided who at any time hereafter, in any part of the Province, 

 without the consent of the owner or caretaker of any enclosure within 

 which foxes or other fur-bearing animals are kept for breeding purposes, 

 and on the outer fence of which enclosure are kept posted notices for- 

 bidding trespassing on the premises where the said animals are kept, 

 and plainly discernible at a distance of not less than twenty-five yards 

 therefrom, shall pass within the said fence or such enclosure or climb 

 over, break or cut through the same for the purposes of entering the 

 said enclosure, or for any other purpose whatever. 



4. Any person convicted of an offence against Section 3 of this 

 Act shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, nor less 

 than fifty dollars and in default of payment of said fine and the costs 

 to a penalty not exceeding six nor less than two months. 



5. Any caretaker may kill any dog wandering in the neighbour- 

 hood of any enclosure in which foxes or other fur-bearing animals are 

 kept, and there giving tongue or otherwise terrifying such animals, 

 provided, however, that the dog so killed is neither muzzled nor accom- 

 panied by the owner or by a person having charge or care of such dog. 



6. Every infringement of any of the provisions of this Act is pun- 

 ishable summarily upon prosecution before a justice of the peace having 

 jurisdiction in the district in which the offence was committed. 



7. The provisions of Part XV of the Criminal Code respecting 

 summary convictions shall, unless incompatible, apply to all prosecu- 

 tions brought, tried and decided under this Section. 



8. This Act shall come into force on the dav of its sanction. 



