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remains open to the public, and that small isolated marshes, which 

 afford even limited sport to the many, shall not be alienated from the 

 public for the benefit and the privilege of the few. 



Recommendations. 



Your Commissioner would, therefore, recommend: — 



(1) That the dates of the open seasons for partridge (ruffed 

 grouse) and w-oodcock throughout the Province be made: October 16th 

 to November 30th, inclusive; for quail, November 1st to 30th, inclu- 

 sive; and for plover, rail and snipe, September 15th to December 15th. 



(2) That on all public land's, marshes or waters it be declared 

 illegal for any person to shoot, kill or take more than 30 wild ducks, all 

 species and varieties of wild ducks and teal included, in any one day, 

 provided only that such restriction shall not be held to apply to such 

 areas as are posted and maintained as duck preserves. 



(3) That Monday of each week during the open season for ducks 

 be declared closed to duck shooting on public lands, marshes or waters. 



(4) That adequate steps be taken to ascertain the desirability of 

 declaring an open season for cock pheasants during the year 1911, and 

 in the event of an open season being decided upon, of legalizing the tak- 

 ing of a proportion of hen birds. 



(5) That all possible efforts be made by the administration in the 

 direction of encouraging the introduction of international regulations 

 in regard to the killing or taking of migratory game and other birds. 



(6) That the principle be maintained of not alienating the shoot- 

 ing privileges over Crown lands, marshes or Avaters in the Avilder por- 

 tions of the Province to private individuals, clubs or corporations; that 

 in the more populous and opened sections of the Province, should it be 

 deemed desirable to grant such privileges in the interests of propaga- 

 tion and conservation, the extent of public land, marsh or water over 

 which shooting rights are thus alienated from the public be strictly 

 limited ; and that in no case an entire marsh or water area suitable for 

 wild ducks be thus alienated. 



The Collection of Non-Resident Licenses and Cold Storage. 



In some sections of the Province there is little doubt but that a 

 considerable number of non-residents hunt, shoot and fish without pay- 

 ing the legal license fees. Most particularly so would this appear to be 

 the case in the vicinity of border towns. The great majority of sports- 

 men who visit Ontardo from outside undoubtedly enter the Province 

 through the border towns, and it has been suggested that, as a means 

 of counteracting as far as possible the evasion of the shooting and 

 angling licenses by such persons, where they have in their possession on 

 entering the Province hunting dogs, guns or angling equipment, they 



