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Your Commissioners are of opinion that much good would undoubtedly re- 
sult from the appointment of such a force of Game Wardens, and recommend that 
every county or district in the Province should pay a certain sum annually, say 
$50, to the Government towards the support and maintenance of the force 
aforesaid, this fund to be supplemented by the Government by an equal sum. 
Your Commissioners recommend that the fines imposed for infractions of the 
Game Laws, should be largely increased, and that the law should provide dis- 
_tinctly that each case must be charged separately, without any option in tne 
matter to the Magistrate or prosecutor. Your Commissioners recommend that 
_ one-half the fines should go direct to the Government and the other half to the 
informer. 
| Your Commissioners recommend as an additional means of assisting in the 
maintenance of the force of game wardens, that a $25 license should be collected 
from all foreign sportsmen, and which would entitle them to shoot or fish during 
the open season, in the Province. 
Your Commissioners also recommend that dealers in Game and Fish should 
be required to take out licenses, so that their premises may be subject to search 
at any time, at the hands of the Game Wardens, the license fees thus received 
to go direct to Government. 
_ Your Commissioners find that the suggestion that every owner of sporting 
fire-arms should be required to register his weapon and pay a nominal fee there- 
for, is intensely unpopular and cannot recommend it. 
Many sportsmen are of opinion that shooters and anglers, when sporting in 
_ counties where they do not reside, should be required to take out a local permit 
ata small fee to go towards the expense of supporting the local Game and Fish 
warden. Your Commissioners are of opinion that this suggestion is a useful one, 
+ and may in time be acted upon, when a permanent Commission has had time to 
elaborate its work. In the meantime, however, on account of the difficulty which 
it is thought would exist in the way of finding the Game Warden, and tbe loss of 
time to which sportsmen would be put, it is not deemed wise to recommend it. 
Your Commissioners find that in some localities dogs are not- taxed, and a 
large number are consequently kept for the purpose of hunting deer. Your 
Commissioners recommend, therefore, that all dogs throughout the Province be 
licensed. The license need not be taken out in any particular city or town, but 
_ the dog must be licensed somewhere. 
Your Commissioners warmly approve of the suggestion made on several ocea- 
sions that the sportsmen in the various counties and districts should be encour- 
_ aged to form associations to protect Game and Fish therein. 
) Your Commissioners find that the formation of close or exclusive Game and 
_ Fish protection associations, which cover marshes by freehold or lease, is in- 
_ tensely unpopular, and cannot recommend that they be encouraged. 
Your Commissioners recommend that all police officers, whether city, county 
or Government constables, and all Government bush rangers, should be Wardens 
under the Act for the purpose of enforcing the Game Laws. 
Your Commissioners recommend that the Wardens should have power to 
arrest offenders on sight without a warrant, and should have power to try cases 
_ themselves, this power, however, to be only exercised in localities where the 
_ Services of a magistrate cannot be conveniently obtained. 
| Your Commissioners recommend that persons arrested by the Wardens 
_ should be tried before the nearest magistrate without having to be taken 
