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13.—(1) No person shall fish for, catch, take or killin such Penalty for 
waters any kind or species of fish during the “close season,” close os 
as by law or regulation the same is fixed or determined for or 
in respect of that particular kind or species of fish, or buy, sell 
or have in his possession at any time after the expiration of 
five days from the beginning of the close season in any year 
any of such kinds or species of fish caught in such 
waters under a penalty of not less than $10 nor more than 
$30, and a further penalty of $1 for each fish so caught or 
taken or found in possession after the expiration of such five 
days. 
14. —(1) The Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council may be regu- Licenses to 
lation provide for the issue of licenses, free of charge, to frontier 72¥/ers and 
settlers in any of the said districts or in any new part of the use night 
Province, or to any Indians residing on any reserve, or to any '™° °€ 
band of Indians residing on a reserve, to take fish in such waters 
other than speckled or brook trout or black or other bass, by net 
or night or set line with not more than tive set lines, exclusively 
for use and consumption by their own families, and any settler 
or other person to whom such license is issued who shall sell or 
barter fish caught nnder such license shall be subject to a 
senalty and to forfeiture of his license. 
(2) Provided nevertheless that nothing herein contained 
shall prejudicially affect any rights specially reserved to or 
conferred upon Indians by any treaty or regulation in that 
behalf made by the Government of Canada nor shall anything 
herein apply to or prejudicially affect the rights of Indians in 
any portion of the territory of the Province as to which their 
claims have not been surrendered or extinguished. 
15. The Fish and Game Commissioners who may be here- pish and game 
after appointed shall have a general oversight or supervision commissioners 
over the fisheries of the Province, subject to any existing Acts peepee 68 
of the Legislature, and to such regulations as shall from time eries. 
to time be made by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council. But 
nothing herein contained nor the appointment of such Com- 
missioners or the assignment of duties to them shall abrogate 
or interfere with the powers and authority conferred upon the 
Lieutenant-Governor or the Lieutenant-Governor in Council or 
the Commissioner of Crown Lands by the Ontario Fisheries po stat. 
Act. c. 22. 
16. Subject to such regulations, such Commissioners shall ,, f 
examine or cause to be examined dams an all other obstruc- quties of com- 
tions existing in rivers and streams flowing over or upon missioners. 
the lands of the Crown, and prescribe the necessity of 
fishways and the location, form and capacity thereof, 
examine into and report upon the best methods of introducing 
and disseminating valuable species of fish into waters where 
they do not exist, and of protecting and increasing the pro luc- 
tion of such valuable species as are to be found in the waters 
