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licenise is at present in force; that those persons recommended to be 

 exempt from the operation of such license be required to obtain a permit 

 in lieu of the license; and that it be declared illegal to be in the pos^s- 

 sion of firearms in the forests or on the wild lands belonging to the 

 Crown during the open seasons for any game whatsoever without such 

 license or j^ermit, unless such firearms 'shall have been sealed witii a 

 governmemt seal. 



(2) That all holders of hunting licenses or permits Avhatsoever be 

 required as a condition of obtaining the same to furnish the Department^ 

 on a form provided with the license or permit for that purpose, with 

 statisitics as to the game shot or killed under such license or permit, and 

 that information based on these returns be given to the public yearly 

 as to the amount of game of each species killed in the Province. 



(3) That the open season for moose and caribou throiugliout the 

 Province be limited to two weeks and be made coinicident with the open 

 season for deer. 



(4) That the shooting of does be prohibited in the future. 



(5) That bona fide settlers in the more newly settled regions of the 

 Province, whether in organized or unorganized districts, domiciled on 

 their holdings generally throughout the yeair and effecting actual 

 improvements in the same or subsisting chiefly on the agricultural 

 products of such holding produced through tlieir own efforts, be, at the 

 discretion of the responsible Department, granted permits to the extent 

 of one only to each family resident together authorizing them to take, 

 during the open season for such game, one moose or one caribou and 

 one deer, or else two deer, for the use of themselves and family, provided 

 only that the said permit be valid only over a radius of ten miles from 

 the habitation of the settler ; that no trading in the game secured under 

 the permit be tolerated; landi that in consideration of receiving a per- 

 mit the settler be required to pay a registration fee of 25 cents, and to 

 furnish the Department, on a form provided him with his permit for 

 thait purpose, with statistics of the game taken by him under such per- 

 mit. 



(6) Tliat a settler's permit as above recommended be renewed only 

 after the required conditions shall have been properly executed; that 

 any infraction of the game laws on the part of the settler or connivance 

 by him at the same on the part of others be deemed sufficient cause for 

 the immediate cancellatioai of his permit and for his disqualification 

 from obtaining such a permit for a period of five years; that such dis- 

 qualification shall be held to apply to all members of his family or other 

 persons resident with him; amd that Avhere infractions of the game laws 

 become at all numerous in any district for which such permits are issued, 

 all such permits issued for the district be cancelled and not renewed for 

 a p<?riod of five years. 



(7) Tliat the settler be required to have his permit on liis person 

 when, engaged in hunting. 



