ON OSTRICH FKATIIERS THEFT HElMtESSION HILL. 15 



Tlwft* of Ostrich Feathers Bill. Mr. W 



Thoma:-, 



Clause One. Passed as printed. M.L.A. 



Clause Two. To delete all the words after " Fee " in the 



third line and in place thereof add the following : Jul y 16 ' 1!)( 

 "That he shall first obtain permission from a Board 

 nominated by the Government, and any applicant being 

 refused a licence by the Board to have the right of 

 appeal to a Judges Court." 



Clause Three. Passed as printed. 



Clause Four. Af ter the word " produce " in the third line 

 delete- the words " The book referred to in section 2 of 

 Act 32 of 1883," and substitute for them the following: . 

 " His book, which shall be a book with counterfoil. 

 The counterfoil to be filled in and signed by him on 

 purchase of Feathers and handed to the seller giving 

 exact weights of the different classes of Feathers pur- 

 chased. The farmer to keep this for thirty days and 

 produce it to any police officer when requested within 

 that period." 



Clause Five to Clause Sixteen. To be struck out. 



Clause Seventeen. Passed as printed. 



Clause Eighteen. Struck out and replaced with the follow- 

 ing : " That every person possessing or holding 

 ostriches shall once during every six months give all 

 his neighbours notice that he intends to collect his 

 ostriches on a certain day, and the neighbours to have 

 the right on that day to go to the farm and also to 

 watch the collecting. 



New Clauses suggested : 



1. That no Licensed Feather "Buyer can employ an agent 



to buy for him unless this agent is also in possession 

 of a Feather Buyer's.Licence. 



2. No farmer be permitted to allow his ostriches to breed 



indiscriminately on the veld and their chicks 

 allowed to grow up and remain wild. 



3. That 110 Licensed Feather Buyer (except at auction 



sales) shall buy feathers outside the district in which 

 he obtained his licence without first getting per- 

 mission from the Board, in any other district he 

 wishes to enter, for the purpose of feaiher buying. 



Koonap Fanners' Association. 



GEO. S. TOMLINSON, 



Hon. Sec. 



96. Do you approve of the suggestions made by 

 the Koonap people ? Yes, fully. 



97. The men who make them are all ostrich 

 farmers ? Yes. 



