5b LEGISLATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 



in the Province, and to provide penalties for the infraction thereof, and such rules 

 and regulations, after being published in two successive issues of the British Columbia 

 Gazette, shall have the force and effect of law. 



MANITOBA. 



Revised Statutes, 1891, I, chap. 75, p. 803. 



[Sec] 1. This Act may be cited as " The Insectivorous Birds Act." 



[Sec\] 2. Nothing in this Act contained shall be held to affect "The Game Protec- 

 tion Act," or to apply to any imported cage birds or other domesticated bird or 

 birds generally known as cage birds, or to any bird or birds commonly known as 

 poultry. (53 Y., c. 33, s. 1.) 



[Sec] 3. It shall not be lawful to shoot, destroy, wound or injure, or to attempt 

 to shoot, destroy, kill, wound or injure, any bird whatsoever, save and except 

 eagles, falcons, hawks, owls, wil<l pigeons, black-birds, king-fishers, jays, crows, 

 English sparrows, ravens, shrikes, bitterns, curlews, cranes, rusty grackle, purple 

 grackle, cormorants, gulls, mergansers, pelicans, loons and the birds specially men- 

 tioned in "The Game Protection Act." (53 V., t. 33, s. 2.) 



[Sec] 4. It shall not be lawful to take, capture, buy, sell, expose for sale or have in 

 possession any bird whatsoever, save the kinds hereinbefore or hereinafter excepted, 

 or to set, wholly or in part, any net, spring, snare, cage or other machine or engine 

 by which any bird whatsoever, save and except eagles, falcons, hawks, owls, wild 

 pigeons, black-birds, king-fishers, jays, crows, English sparrows, ravens, shrikes, bit- 

 terns, curlews, cranes, rusty grackle, jiurple grackle, cormorants, gulls, mergansers, 

 pelicans and loons, might Ik' killed and captured; and any net, trap, spring, snare, 

 cage or other macliine or engine, set either wholly or in i)art for the i>urpose of cap- 

 turing or killing any l)ird or birds, save and except eagles, falcons, liawks, owls, wild 

 pigeons, black-bir(i«, king-fishers, jays, crows, English sparrows, ravens, shrikes, 

 bitterns, curlews, cranes, rusty grackle, purple grackle, cormorant.s, gulls, mergansers, 

 pelic^ans and loons, may be destroyed by any i>erson without such person incurring 

 any liability therefor. (53 V., c. 33, s. 3. ) 



[Skc] 5. It shall not Ix' lawful to take, injure, destroy or have in i>ossession any 

 nest, young or egg of any bird wluitsocver, excqjt of eagles, falcons, hawks, owls, 

 wild pigeons, black-l)irds, king-fishers, jays, crows, English sparrows, ravens, shrikes, 

 bitterns, curlews, cranes, rusty grackle, ])urple grackle, cormorants, gulls, mergan- 

 sers, pelicans and loons. (53 V., c. 33, s. 4.) 



[Sec.] 7. The Minister of Agriculture and Inunigration an<l all i>ersons authorized 

 by him to that effect may grant written jiermission to any i>erson or jx^rsons who 

 may l)e desirous of obtaining binls or eggB for ItDiidfuh- scientific i)urposes to jjrocure 

 them for thosi' purjioses, and such j)erson or i)ersons receiving such ixirmission shall 

 not be liable to any penalty under this Act. (53 V., c. 33, s. (5.) 



[Sec] S. The violation <if any provision of this Act shall subject the offender to a 

 fine of not less than one dollar and not more than twenty dollars, with costs, on 

 sunnnary conviction, on information or complaint before one or more justicas of the 

 peace or a police magistrate. (53 V., c 33, s. 7, s-s. 1.) 



NEW BRUNSWICK 



Acts of the General Assembly of 1899, Chap. VIII, p. 61. 



[Sec] 2. (b) The expression "game" includes any animal or bird incntiont'*! in 

 this Act, or of a species or class similar thereto. 



[Sec] 4. Everyone is guilty of an offence and liable to the jxMialty hereinafti-r pro- 

 vided who at any time or season hereafter, in any part of the Province: 



