BULLET AND SHOT 



3. The Governor in Council may, by notification in the 



Fort St, George Gazette, from time to time, 



Power to fix close /- f ., , 



season " x a season or seasons of the year during 



which it shall not be lawful for any person 

 to shoot at, kill, capture, pursue or sell, or attempt to kill, 

 capture or sell game, as may be specified in such notifica- 

 tion within the district aforesaid. 



Provided that nothing in this Act contained shall pre- 

 clude proprietors or occupiers of land from 



Proviso as to private j , 111 



lands adopting such measures on such land as 



may be necessary for the protection of 

 crops or produce growing thereon. 



4. Whenever any animal, bird, or fish, useful for food, 



not indigenous to the district aforesaid, is 



Protection of animal, introduced into it with the approval of the 

 bird, or fish not in- _, . . . 



digenous. Government with a view to becoming 



acclimatised or being propagated therein, 

 it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time 

 to time, by notification in the Fort St. George Gazette, 

 to prohibit altogether, or to regulate in such manner and for 

 such period not exceeding three years as may be declared 

 in such notification, the pursuit, killing or capture of such 

 animal, bird, or fish. 



5. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, by 

 Power to prescribe notification in the Fort St. George Gazette, 

 rule for the regula- from time to time to make rules for the 

 tion and control of regulation and control of fishing in any 

 fishmg> stream or lake within the said district; 

 and such rules may, with the view to protect acclimatised 

 fish which may be believed to be there, or may be here- 

 after introduced therein, prohibit or regulate the poisoning 

 of the waters of any stream or lake, the throwing of any 

 deleterious matter therein, the use of fixed engines for the 

 capture of fish in any stream, and the use of nets of a 

 mesh below a certain size to be defined in such rules for 

 the capture of fish in such stream or lake. 



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