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cents for each bird, to hv recovered and appropriated in tlie manner 

 prescrii)ed hy tlie twenty-llrst section. 



PKNAI/riKS. 



21. .Ml penalties imposed by this Cliai)ter shall he enforcetl hy 

 smnmnry conviction hefoi'c a jnstice of the |)eace. and when reco- 

 \('red shall l)e paid one-half to the informer and the other half to 

 the commissionei" if i)rose(nitin,u' : bnt if the prosecutor he any 

 other person than a connnissioner then sue!', othei' or second half 

 shall l)e paid l)y the niaii'istrate or justices or jnstice tryini;' tlie case 

 within fifteen days after the recovery tht-reof to the ti'casurer of 

 the (Jame and Inland Fi>liery I'roteclion Society of Nova Scotia, to 

 he ai)plii'd to the objects of such society. 



22. rt shall 1)1' the dnty of all justices of the peace, stipendiai-y 

 niaiiisti'ates. constahles. i)olicenien and market clerks to enforce the 

 provisions of this Chapter, and of any other enactmei;t for the 

 preser\ation of useful birds and animals. Avliene\'er the iufrinire- 

 nu'ut thereof comes under their notice, under a penalty of not less 

 than ten dollars for each omission of duty. 



2;?. In any case wliere uo ])enalty is or shall be provided for any 

 otl'ence au'ainst this Chapter, or any other enactment for the preser- 

 vation of useful birds and an'mals. the penalty shall be not less 

 than fi\-e nor more than twenty dollars, to l)e recovered tx'fore a 

 stipendiary masiistrate or out' justice of the peace, subject to all 

 the i)rovisions of the twenty-first section. 



MlSCKI.I.ANKOrS Pi;<) VISIONS. 



24. There shall continue to be a chief uame c(Junnissiouer for 

 the Province (appointed l)y the (if)venu)r-in-Council.) who shall l)e 

 sworn to the faithful performance of his duty, and whose duty it 

 shall t)e to supervise and instruct the district connnissioners in the 

 dis<'harire of their duties, to assist as fai' as practicable in the 

 prosecution of offenders, and uenerally to see tliat the provisions of 

 the laws for the i)reservation of useful birds and animals are 

 cai'i'ied out; and it shall be lawful for any person to destroy or kill 

 any tloii's found huntinu'. pursuinu' or chasinii" any moose or caril)ou. 



25 There shall continue to be for each di>-trict heri'tofore set 

 apart ov hereafter to be set apart for the i)uri»ose by the (iovernor- 

 in-Coimcil a connnissioner api)ointed by the Governor-in-Council. 

 \\]u) shall uiake oath for the projx-r discharu'e of his duties, and 

 whose duties it shall l)e to see that the pro\isions of the law i\re 

 carried out, and particularly to prosecute all persons offendinn- 

 auainst it in reuard to the pri'sei'vation of iiame. It shall also be 

 his duty to assist the officers of the Government of the Dominion of 

 Canada as far as possible in carry iuii" out the laws for the jtreser- 

 vatioii of till- inland fisheries of the rroviuce. 



2(1. No person not liaxinif his domicile in the Pi'ovince of Nova 

 Scotia shall bi- allowed to kill or pursue Avitli intent to kill any of 

 the animals or l)ir(ls included in the ti-nn uame as detined in this 

 Chai)ter at any time of the year without haviui'' first ((btained a 

 license for the [)nrpose. sijiued l)y the rrovim-lal Secretary and 



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