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The following Bill amending the foregoing Act for the Pro- 
tection of Game and Fur-bearing Animals was passed by 
the Ontario Legisluture on Lith Ayiil, 1892, subsequent 
to the receipt of your Commissioners’ report. 
CHAPTER 58. 
An Act to amend the Act for the Protection of Game 
aud Fur-bearing Animals. 
TT ER 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 tirst day of November of the following year; but the "°° ° 
period hereinbefore limited shall not as to moose, elk, reindeer 
or caribou, apply before or until the first day of November, 1895, 
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 yy, jting wi 
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to be accustomed to pursue deer shall permit any such hound bounds, when 
or other dog to run at large in any locality where deer are @Wful. 
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 tv be the owner thereof ; and 
any hound or dog found running deer between the tifteenth 
day of November and the first day of November following 
mav 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 theretor. 
(3) Section 17 of the said Act is repealed and the following Rev Stat., ¢. 
substituted therefor :-— aa ee re- 
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 eari- bet of oa 
bou. But this shall not apply in the case of deer which are po sti 
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 prenises. 
(4) Hunting or killing deer by what is known as “ crust- Certain kinds 
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ing” or while they are “ yarding” is hereby declared unlawfal. rere! 
f ee : prohibited. 
(5) No fawn shall at any time be hunted, killed, taken or Kiting of 
possessed ; possession of a fawn after being killed shall be pre- ines 
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suinptive evidence of a violation of this sub-section. 
(6) No common carrier, or other person shall transport or 
have in poxse-sion 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 
