CANADIAN EXPORT LAWS. 



Extract from the Customs Tariff. 



Export: [Sec] 8. The export of deer, wild turkeys, quail, partridge, prairie fowl 

 and woodcock, in the carcase or parts thereof, is hereby declared unlawful and pro- 

 hibited ; and any person exporting or attempting to export any such article shall for 

 each such offense incur a penalty of one hundred dollars, and the article so attempted 

 to be exported shall be forfeited, and may, on reasonable cause of suspicion of inten- 

 tion to export, be seized by any officer of the customs, and, if such intention is 

 proved, shall be dealt with as for breach of the Customs laws: Provided, that this 

 section shall not apply to the export, under such regulations as are made by the 

 Governor in Council, of any carcase or part thereof of any deer raised or bred by any 

 person, company or association of persons upon his or their own lands. 



The Governor in Council is further authorized to regulate ' ' the number of deer 

 and parts thereof which may be exported in any year, when shot, under Provincial 

 or Territorial authority in Canada, by any person not domiciled in Canada for sport, 

 and for limiting the ports at which such deer may be exported, and for prescribing 

 the conditions under which such exjDortation maybe permitted: Provided, that deer 

 in the carcase or parts thereof may be exported as prescribed by such regulations 

 notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act of the Parliament of Canada." 



[No prohibition against export of live game in the customs laws.] 



Regulations respecting" export of ' Hom.e-bred Deer.' Order in Council 

 No. 1064 B, August 17, 1899. 



Domesticated. Deer: Any person who wishes to export any carcass or parts 

 thereof of deer raised or bred upon his own land, or upon lands owned by a Com- 

 pany or Association of persons of which he is a member, shall make affidavit upon 

 the face of the export entry to the effect that the deer, the carcass or parts whereof 

 is so entered for exportation, w^as raised or bred upon his own lands or upon lands 

 owned or held by a company or association of persons of which he is a member 

 (describing the location of such lands, and naming the association or company hold- 

 ing the same). 



Regulations respecting export of deer shot for sport. Customs Dept. 

 Mem. No. 1063 B, August 18, 1899. 



The following Regulations respecting the Export of Deer, shot for sport by persons 

 not domiciled in Canada, have been made and established, viz. : — 



1. Deer when shot for sport under Provincial or Teriitorial Authority in Canada, 

 by any person not domiciled in Canada may be exported under the following condi- 

 tions and limitations: — 



Ports: 1. The deer may be exported only at the Customs Ports of Halifax, Yar- 

 mouth, Macadam Junction, Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa, Kingston, Niagara Falls, 

 Fort Erie, Windsor, Sault Ste. Marie, Port Arthur, and such other Ports as shall 

 from time to time by the Minister of Customs be designated for the export of deer. 



Seasons: 2. The exportation of deer in the carcase or parts thereof (except as to 



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