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FUR BEARING ANIMALS. 
Your Commissioners find that the Beaver, Otter, and Fisher are growing very ~ 
scarce in Ontario, and unanimously recommend that they be strictly protected 
for five years, during which none of these animals should be allowed to be taken 
or killed. 
Your Commissioners are of opinion that the present trapping season should 
be shortened, one month, so as to end on 31st March instead of 30th April. The 
present season is too long, and interferes with the breeding season. 
WOLVES. 
Your Commissioners find that much harm is done to the Deer and larger 
game animals of the Province, by Wolves. 
The trappers and hunters assert that the Wolf is an animal which can only 
be taken with great difficulty, and the bounty at present paid, is altogether too 
small, to induce them to follow the animal. 
Your Commissioners recommend that the bounty be raised from $6 to $12, 
and that the same arrangements be made for the payment of the bounty in un- 
organized districts. 
No bounty is paid for the destruction or Wolves, except in organized dis- 
tricts or within one mile of settlements. Those who live in unorganized dis- 
tricts, suffer much from the depredation of the Wolf, but the authorities are too 
poor to pay a bounty, and consequently, no effort is made to kill the destroyer. 
FOXES: AND OTHER VERMIN. 
Your Commissioners recommend that $1 bounty be paid for each Fox 
destroyed, as this animal is a great destroyer of young game. 
Your Commissioners are of opinion that all vermin not specified and pro- 
tected by the game laws should be killed at sight. 
ON GENERAL QUESTIONS. 
Your Commissioners find that the close seasons for Game and Fish are not 
generally respected throughout the Province, the laws being broken by all classes 
of the community, principally, however, by settlers, Indians, boys, and pot- 
hunters. 
Your Commissioners unanimously recommend that a Provincial force of 
Game and Fish Wardens or Protectors should be established. 
Your Commissioners recommend that the Sub- Wardens should be permanent 
residents of the localities under their supervision, because they are intimately 
acquainted with the game districts and the residents of the neighbourhood, and 
would naturaJly hear more of what was going on than a stranger could possibly do. 
Your Commissioners recommend that the Sub-Wardens should be appointed 
by the Chief Warden, who in turn should be appointed by the Game and Fish 
Commissioners and might or might not be residentsof the localities where they are 
stationed. 
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