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permission of the Provincial Game Warden to the taking, sale, disposition, 

 export, or import thereof alive for any such purposes for the time and accord- 

 ing to the laws set forth in any such permission. 1909, c. 20, s. 3 {part). 



Protection of AnhnaJs and Birda. 



G. It shall not be lawful at any time of the year to shoot any wild fowl or 

 discharge a firearm within that part of Victoria Harbour to the north of a 

 line drawn from Shoal Point, in the City of Victoria, to Work Point, in the 

 District of Esquimalt, or in any portion of Victoria Arm between Point Ell ice 

 Bridge and the northerly side of the Gorge Bridge, or in the Harbour of Van- 

 couver, otherwi.se Burrard Inlet, with that part of the harbour which lies to 

 the south of a line drawn easterly from Brockton Point to the south-east 

 corner of District Lot 274, and to the west of a line drawn southerly from 

 .said south-east corner of Lot 274 to the north-east corner of District Lot 184, 

 on the south shore of said harbour. 1898, c. 24, s. 3; 1905, c. 25, s. 2. 



7. No person, or railway, .steamship, or express company, shall at any 

 time purchase or have in possession, with intent to export or cause to be 

 exported or carried out of this Province, nor shall at any time or in any 

 manner export or cause to be exported or carried out of this Province, any 

 or any portion of the animals or birds mentioned in this Act without first 

 obtaining a permit in writing from the Minister. In determining the question 

 of intent of any party charged under this section, any competent proof that 

 the accused has within one year exported or caused to be exported or carried 

 beyond this Province any bird or animal mentioned in this Act, or any part of 

 such bird or animal, shall be received as prima facie evidence of the existence 

 of such unlawful intent charged in the complaint or information : Provided 

 that it shall be lawful for any person having a licence under section 21 of 

 this Act to export or cause to be exported or carried out of the Province the 

 birds and the heads, horns, and skins of such animals mentioned in Schedule 

 B to this Act, as have been legally killed by such licence-holder : Provided 

 that the provisions of this section shall not apply to bear, marten, or land- 

 otter. 1909. c. 20, s. 2; 1910, c. 22. s. 2. 



S. No person shall hunt, trap, take, shoot at, kill, or wound any game 

 birds or animals hereafter imported for acclimatization purposes and distri- 

 buted in any part of the Province, nor shall any person at any time import 

 any live animal or bird into this Province without the written permission of 

 the Provincial Game Warden therefor, until, in either case, such time and 

 thereafter under such regulations as the Lieutenant-Governor shall appoint 

 and make under the provisions of section 33 hereof. 1909, c. 20, s. 3 (part). 



9. None of the birds mentioned in this Act shall be trapped or taken by 

 means of traps, nets, snares, gins, baited lines, drugged bait, or other 

 contrivances, nor shall such traps, nets, snares, gins, baited lines, or drugged 

 bait or contrivances be set for them, or any of them, at any time; and such 

 traps, nets, snares, gins, baited lines, drugged bait, or contrivances, when set. 

 may be destroyed by any person without such person incurring any liability 

 therefor. 1898, c. 24, s. G. 



10. No eggs of any of the birds mentioned in this Act shall be taken, 

 destroyed, or had in possession by any person at any time. 1898, c. 24, s. 7 

 (part). 



