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The following Bill amending Ike foregoing Act for the Pro- 

 tection of Game and Fur-bearing Animals was passed by 

 the Ontario Legislature on IJ^ih April, 1892, subsequent 

 to the receipt of your Commissioners report. 



CHAPTER 58. 



An Act to amend the Act for the Protection of Game 

 and Fur-bearing Animals. 



HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the 

 Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts 

 ,as follows : 



1 (1) No deer, elk, moose, reindeer or caribou shall be close period 

 hunted, taken or killed between the fifteenth day of Novem- for deer, elk, 

 ber and the first day of November of the following year; but the mo fce etc - 

 period hereinbefore limited shall not as to moose, elk, reindeer 

 or caribou, apply before or until the first day of November, 1<S95, 

 and no moose, elk, reindeer, or caribou shall be hunted, taken 

 or killed before the first day of November, 1895. 



(2) No owner of any hound or other dog known by the owner Huntin with 

 to be accustomed to pursue deer shall permit any such hound houndsfwhen 

 or other dog to run at large in any locality where deer are lawful - 

 usually found during the period from the fifteenth day of No- 

 vember to the first day of November of the following year. 



Any person harbouring or claiming to be the owner of such 

 hound or dog shall be deemed to be the owner thereof ; and 

 any hound or dog found running deer between the fifteenth 

 day of November and the first day of November following 

 may be killed on sight by any person, and the person killing 

 such hound or dog shall not be liable to any penalty or dam- 

 .ages therefor. 



(3) Section 17 of the said Act is repealed and the following K ev Stat - c - 

 substituted therefor : pealed ' " 



17. No one person shall during any one year or season kill Limit of num- 

 or take more in all than two deer, elk, moose, reindeer or cari- berof d^r, 

 bou. But this shall not apply in the case of deer which are owe 'person 

 the private property of any person and which have been killed may kill, 

 or taken by such person or by his direction or with his consent, 

 in or upon his own lands or premises. 



(4) Hunting or killing deer by what is known as " crust- Certain kinds 

 ing " or while they are " yarding " is hereby declared unlawful. of h , UI t ltinf ? 



prohibited. 



(5) No fawn shall at any time be hunted, killed, taken or Killing of 

 possessed ; possession of a fawn after being killed shall be pre- 

 sumptive evidence of a violation of this sub-section. 



(6) No common carrier, or other person shall transport or 

 have in possession for that purpose, in this Province, after 

 the same has been killed, any wild deer or the raw skin there- 

 of or any venison save only from the first to the 22nd day of 



