APPENDIX II 



By-laws of the Silver Black Fox Breeders' Association of Prince 



Edward Island 



Registration and Classification 



The rules for classification, registration, and enrolment of all foxes owned 

 by members of this Association, shall be as follows: 



SECTION 1 

 The Prince Edward Island Standard Bred Silver Black Fox Register 



This Association shall open a Register for the registration of native-bred 

 Prince Edward Island silver black foxes, or for those that meet the require- 

 ments laid down in the following rules of admission to this Register. This 

 register shall be known as "The Prince Edward Island Standard Bred Silver 

 Black Fox Register." 



Qualification for Registration 



♦Rule 1. For the purpose of establishing a standard of breeding for Prince 

 Edward Island silver black foxes, any silver black fox bred and held in cap- 

 tivity in Prince Edward Island prior to June 1st, in the year 1910, shall be 

 considered foundation stock, and shall be eligible to registry in the Standard 

 Bred Register, provided that each parent was a true silver black. 



Rule 2. Any silver black fox bred in captivity after 1910 shall be eligible to 

 registry in the Standard Bred Register, provided that the sire and the dam 

 were mated previous to June 1st, 1910, and produced a litter of pups that are 

 registered as foundation stock. 



Rule 3. Any native Prince Edward Island ranch-bred silver black fox shall 

 be eligible to registry in the Standard Bred Register, provided that for three 

 generations all members in both the direct and collateral lines were true silver 

 blacks. 



Rule 4. Any silver black fox shall be eligible to registry in the Standard 

 Bred Register whose progenitors for three generations were true silver blacks 

 and whose sire or dam is a Standard Bred registered fox, provided that either 

 the sire or dam in each mating in the second and third generation is a Standard 

 Bred registered fox and that for the three generations all members in both 

 the direct and collateral lines were true silver blacks. 



Rule S. Any silver black fox, whose sire and dam are recorded in the 

 Standard Bred Register, shall be eligible to Registry in the Standard Bred 

 Register. 



NOTE : — By the term " native Prince Edward Island silver black fox,'' shall 

 be understood a silver black fox that is exclusively the descendant of those 

 foxes native to the Province, or of those that were owned and held in captivity 

 in the Province, prio/ to June 1st, 1910. 



•A form of application for registration under Rule 1 is given In Appendix III. 



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