CAMPING OUT. 299 



" The export from this Province of moose or cariboo 

 hides is hereby prohibited and unlawful, and the hides 

 attempted to be exported shall be forfeited, and the 

 owner or person attempting to export the same shall, 

 on conviction, be liable to pay a sum not to exceed five 

 dollars on each hide, to be recovered in the name of any 

 prosecutor in a summary manner before two justices of 

 the peace, and, when recovered, to go to the prose- 

 cutor." 



With regard to smaller game, — 



"No snares shall be set for hares between the first 

 days of March and September in any year, under a 

 penalty of two dollars for each offence ; and all snares 

 shall be taken up during the aforesaid close season under 

 a penalty of two dollars for each snare not removed by 

 the parties setting the same, on or before the first day of 

 March, to be recovered in the same manner as in the 

 preceding section/' 



*' Partridges, snipe, and woodcock, are protected from 

 1st day of March to 1st of September, — penalty, ten 

 shillings for every bird killed out of season." 



" No person is permitted to have any of the above in 

 his possession in the close season, under a penalty of ten 

 shillings for each." 



Exceptional cases to all the game laws are made on 

 behalf of the Indians, who abuse their privilege, however, 

 most shamefully, and to the detriment of those for whom 

 the preservation of the animals of the forest is yearly 

 becoming of more importance. It is very well to argue 

 that the poor Indian has a right to shoot a moose or 

 spear a salmon for his own use at any time of the year ; 

 but when they shoot moose wholesale in the deep snow 



