﻿COMPARISON 
  OF 
  STATISTICS. 
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  While 
  the 
  issue 
  of 
  nonresident 
  licenses 
  in 
  Ontario 
  has 
  increased 
  

   regularly 
  and 
  to 
  larger 
  proportions 
  than 
  in 
  Michigan, 
  the 
  issue 
  of 
  

   resident 
  licenses 
  has 
  always 
  been 
  considerably 
  smaller. 
  This 
  is 
  

   explained 
  in 
  part 
  by 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  in 
  1896 
  the 
  government 
  began 
  the 
  

   issue 
  of 
  free 
  settlers' 
  permits, 
  allowing 
  one 
  member 
  of 
  a 
  family 
  to 
  kill 
  

   two 
  deer 
  for 
  food 
  purposes. 
  In 
  1897, 
  2,300 
  of 
  these 
  permits 
  were 
  

   issued, 
  in 
  1898, 
  2,101, 
  and 
  in 
  1899, 
  2,665. 
  But 
  even 
  if 
  the 
  settlers' 
  

   permits 
  and 
  resident 
  licenses 
  are 
  combined, 
  the 
  total 
  will 
  still 
  be 
  less 
  

   than 
  one-half 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  resident 
  licenses 
  issued 
  in 
  Michigan 
  for 
  

   the 
  same 
  year. 
  

  

  