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Protection Department, under Mr. Hall, an inspector was sent up there, and 

 I arrested this man and took him to the nearest magistrate. We obtained a 

 conviction; three months in prison, or a $50 fine. That one arrest and con- 

 viction has done more to help the cause of fire ranging in Quebec than any- 

 thing that has happened for a long time, because whole districts now know 

 that it is unwise to set a fire or to resist a fire ranger. (Applause.) 



MR. BERGEVIN : We have had an invitation tendered to us this morning 

 by the Honourable Mr. Grimmer, Surveyor-General of New Brunswick ; and 

 I beg to move that his invitation to hold our next annual Convention m 

 Fredericton, should be accepted. 



SENATOR EDWARDS : Will you allow me to say a word about that? It is 

 well known that already the Premier has arranged for and has secured an 

 appropriation for a big Convention in Montreal next year. 



THE PRESIDENT : I thought it was in May of this year. 



SENATOR EDWARDS : No; it is next autumn. I simply want to mention 

 it. As a matter of fact, I know there is an appropriation for it. 



MR. BERGEVIN : This is a very good idea, but I would move that our 

 Convention, which is the Annual Meeting of the Association, should be held 

 before this Convention called by Sir Wilfrid Laurier takes place, so that we 

 may prepare suggestions for the Convention that Sir Wilfrid is already 

 organizing. 



MR. STEWART : If this is a Special Meeting, the decision as to where 

 the next Annual Meeting is to be held should be given, I think, at the regu- 

 lar Annual Meeting when it assembles in March. This being a Special Meet- 

 ing we have not gone into many things, such as the accounts, etc., as we do 

 at the Annual Meeting, and I think the decision as to our next place of meet- 

 ing should be left to that meeting. 



MR. BERGEVIN : I will amend my motion by saying that we recommend 

 to your Executive Committee the adoption. of the invitation that has been 

 extended to hold the regular Annual Meeting of 1910 at Fredericton. 



Mr. SOUTHWORTH : I have pleasure is seconding that. 



Mr. A. C. CAMPBELL : Before that resolution is put, may I ask when the 

 Annual Meeting of this Association is held? 



THE PRESIDENT : The Annual Meeting should have been held in March 

 of this year, but this Special Meeting was held a month earlier, because I 

 am usually in England during March and April. Some have said it is a 

 good thing that this meeting comes just before the Committee goes to Wash- 

 ington to confer with the American Committee appointed by Congress. 



