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lawful to use sunken punts or batteries, or night lights. No eggs of any kind 
of the birds above enumerated are allowed to be taken or destroyed at any time. 
No beaver, muskrat, mink, sable, otter or fisher, is to be taken or trapped be- 
tween the Ist of May and the 15th of November.* There is also a clause pro- 
tecting any particular kind of game that may be imported by parties desirous 
of breeding the same. The fine varies from $2 to $25 for each head of game 
illegally killed, and in default of payment offenders are imprisoned in a com- 
mon jail for a term not exceeding thirty days. 
Speckled trout can be taken between the Ist of January and the Ist of Oc- 
tober, but only by angling by hand with hook and line. Whitefish or salmon- 
trout are not to be taken by any means between the 19th of November and 
the Ist of December, nor by means of any kind of seine between the 30th of 
May and the Ist of August. The close seasons for bass, pickerel, maskinongeé, 
and other fish are to be fixed by the governor in Council, to suit different lo- 
calities. 
In Quebec, the close season for elk, moose, cariboo, deer, fawn, or hare, is 
from the Ist of February to the Ist of September ; for grouse, ptarmigan, part- 
ridge, woodcock, or snipe, between the Ist of March and the Ist of September. 
No wild swan, wild goose, or any kind of wild duck is allowed to be shot at, 
trapped, or killed between the 20th of May and the Ist of September, except 
in that part of the province east of the Brandy Pots, where the inhabitants 
are allowed, for food on/y, to kill the same between the Ist of September and 
the lst of June. Neither is it lawful to kill any of the above between sunset 
and sunrise. All the game animals and birds mentioned in the act except 
hares and partridges are protected from trapping. No eggs of any of the 
kinds of birds mentioned, or any species of wild-fowl, are allowed to be dis- 
turbed, injured, or taken. 
No lynx, wild cat, mink, or marten to be taken or killed between the 15th 
of April and the Ist of November; no otter between the Ist of May and the 
Ist of November; no beaver between the 80th of April and the Ist of Sep- 
tember; no muskrat between the Ist of June and the 2)st of October. Nor 
shall any person buy, sell, or have in his or her possession any unseasonable 
skin of any of the said animals. 
Fines vary from $1 to $50, and in default of ‘mmediate payment the penal- 
ty is imprisonment in the common jail for a term not exceeding three months. 
No proceeding under this act can be set aside by certiorari, an appeal only 
lying to the Circuit Court of the chief place of the district wherein the offense 
was committed. The jurisdiction is very summary, and the general provis- 
ions very stringent. No kind of trout (or lunge) can be taken between the 
Ist of October and the Ist of January; whitefish and salmon-trout are not 
to be taken in any way between the 19th of November and the Ist of Decem- 
ber, nor by means of any kind of seine between the 31st of July and the Ist 
of December; between the 31st of October and the 31st of December it is 
unlawful to kill shad or whitefish in Missisquoi Bay, Lake Champlain ; sal- 
mon can not be fished for in Ontario and Quebec, or the River Restigouche 
(N. B.), between the 31st of July and the Ist of May, except by fly surface- 
* The close season for hare is from T ist of March to the 1st of September. 
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