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(a) Hunts, takes, hurts, injures, traps, snares, shoots, wounds, kills or destroys: * * * 



II. Any game on Sunday: [Penalty, double that for killing- same game or. any 

 week day in close season.] 



III. Any game in any park, pleasure resort, land or forest now or hereafter set 

 apart or reserved for public park purposes: [Penalty, double that for killing same 

 game in any other closed district.] 



IV. Any sea gull, jaheasant or any small birds which frequent the fields and woods 

 (except such birds as to which special provisions are made in this Act, and excepting 

 also blackbirds, crows and English sparrows), or removes, damages or destroys the 

 nest or eggs thereof. [Penalty, $5 fine or 5 days' imprisonment. ] 



[Sec] 7. Notwithstanding anything in this Act contained it shall be lawful to 



(o) Hunt, take, shoot or kill * * * 



II. Any game for preservation as specimens of natural history, or for scientific 

 investigation, provided a license therefor is first obtained as provided in section 44. 



[Sec. ] 44. * * * The Surveyor-General may also issue licenses jDermitting the 

 taking or killing of any game within the Province for preservation as specimens of 

 natural history, or for scientific investigation. 



[Sec] 45. No license or permit issued under the provisions of this Act shall be 

 valid unless signed by the Surveyor-General and countersigned by the chief game 

 commissioner or warden who may have issued the same. 



NEWFOTJNDIiAND. 



Consolidated Statutes, second series, 1892, chap. 144, p. 980. 



[Sec] 2. No person shall hunt, wound, kill, take, sell, jDurchase, or give away, or 

 have in his possession, any curlew, plover, snipe, or other wild or migratorv birds 

 (excepting wild geese), or the eggs of any such birds, within this colony between 

 the twelfth day of January and the twentieth day of August in each year, under a 

 penalty of not less than twenty-five dollars nor exceeding two hundred dollars, or, 

 in default of payment, of imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months. 



[Sec 10 (Act of 1899). Any person, except a traveler on a journey, found on 

 Sunday carrying firearms, shall be subject to a fine not exceeding $40, and in default 

 of payment to imprisonment not exceeding one month.] 



NOVA SCOTIA. 

 Statutes of 1896, chap. 4. 



[Sec] 22. The killing of robins, swallows, sparrows and other small birds and 

 birds of song, which frequent the fields and gardens, and the selling and offering for 

 sale, and the having in possession such birds when killed, is prohibited and unlawful. 



[Sec ] 23. Any game mentioned in this Act may be killed or taken at any time for 

 purposes of scientific investigation, and the eggs of game birds procured for propa- 

 gation, a special license, setting forth the particular purpose of the inquiry, and 

 signed by the Provincial Secretary or his deputy, having been first obtained for that 

 purpose from the Provincial Secretary's office. 



[Sec] 24. The trapping, snaring or otherwise taking alive, or exposing for sale 

 alive, of any of the birds mentioned in the twenty-second section, and the destroying 

 of the nests or eggs of such birds, shall hereafter be unlawful, and any such trap or 

 snares when found may be destroyed, and any such bird if alive shall be set free. 



[Sec] 25. Any person offending against the twenty -second or twenty -fourth section, 

 shall for each offence incur a penalty of one dollar. 



