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(8) That special steps be taken to prevent the use of deer or moose 

 meat, illegally taken, in lumber or other camps located in the woods, by 

 engaging the services of reliable men to work in siuspeoted camptsi and 

 report infractions of the Law to the proper authorities, and that a fine 

 of 1250.00, in addition to the present legal fine for each animal illegally 

 taken, be imposed on the licensee or contra,ctor responsible wherever it 

 can be proved that moose, caribou or deer meat or other game has been 

 illegally supplied to the gangs or working parties employed by him. 



(9) That any white man inciting, abetting, paying or causing an 

 Indian to violate the game laws in any respect or ^taking advantage of 

 any such (presumj)tive) violation on the part of the Indian be made 

 liable to a fine of not less than $100 in addition to such other fines or 

 penalties as would be imposed by law on account of the game or pelts 

 thus secured. 



(10) Thiat, if possible, it be declared a crime, puniishable by 

 imprisonment or fine, for an Indian to barter or attempt to barter any 

 game whatsoever, including the pelts of fur-bearing animals, taken dur- 

 ing the legal close season for such game as may be in force in the 

 Province, except and only among his own kind within the limitis of an 

 Indian Reservation. 



(11) That, if possible, steps be taken to have the game laAvs- made 

 applicable to Indians in so far as all public lands and waters are con- 

 cerned; that under such conditioms tlie Indians be accorded tihe same 

 privileges as recommended for the bona fide settler; free of all charge 

 and conditions other than that they be required to secure a permit to 

 hunt on public lands, to have such permits on their persions while hunt- 

 ing and report to the Indian Agent ^^'(^lat game is taken under such per- 

 mits; and that steps be taken to sieeure from the Indian Agents statis- 

 tics of the game slaughtered by the Indians under sucb permits. 



(12) That steps be taken to prevent the Indians hunting in any 

 of the Provincial Forest Reserves. 



(13) That where Indian reservations are located in or in tlie 

 vicinity of provincial forest reserve steps .be taken, if possible, to come 

 to some arrangement with the Indians inhabiting them whereby they 

 shall surrender such reservations in return for lands at a distance 

 from such reserves. 



(14) That the experiment be made of still further developing the 

 existing policy of employing a few Indians as fire rangers in the provin- 

 cial forest reserves. 



Fur-Bearing Animals. 



In its fur-bearing animals the Province of Ontario possesses an 

 asset of enormous value, but the ever rising market worth of the pelts 

 of practically every species, the growth of population and the increasing 

 accessibility of many of its A\dlder regions have tended to and resulted 

 in a s:reat diminution im the numbers of nearlv all varieties. So much 



