PROVINCIAL LAWS. 



BRITISH COLUMBIA. 



Statutes of 1898, 61 Vic, chap. 24, pp. 123-125. 



Game birds defined: [Sec] 2. * * * The expression "game bird," wherever 

 the same occurs in this Act, shall mean a bird protected by the provisions of this 

 Act. [Birds hving on noxious insects, bittern, blackbird (English), chaffinch, duck, 

 grouse (including prairie chicken), gull, heron, linnet, meadowlark, partridge 

 (English), pheasant, plover, quail, robin, skylark, thrush.] 



Export: [Sec] 4. No person shall at any time purchase or have in possession, 

 with intent to export, or cause to be exported or carried out of the limits of this 

 Province, or shall at any time or in any manner export, or cause to be exported or 

 carried out of the limits of this Province, any or any portion of the animals or birds 

 mentioned in this Act [deer, elk, moose, caribou, mountain sheep, mountain goat, 

 hare, quail, partridge, grouse, pheasant, duck and certain nongame birds enumerated 

 in section 2], in their raw state; and this provision shall apply to railway, steamship 

 and express companies. In determining the question of intent of any party charged 

 under this section, any competent proof that the accused has within one year exported, 

 or caused to be exported or carried beyond the limits of this Province, any bird or 

 animal covered by this section, or any part of such bird or animal, shall be received 

 as prima facie evidence of the existence of such unlawful intent charged in the 

 complaint or information: Provided that it shall be lawful for any person having a 

 licence under section 15 of this Act to export, or cause to be exported or carried 

 out of the Province, the heads, horns and skins of such animals mentioned in 

 section 9, subsection (d), of this Act, as have been legally killed by such licence- 

 holder: Provided that the provisions of this section shall not apply to bear or beaver, 

 marten or land otter. 



Sale: [Sec] 9. It shall be unlawful for any person at any time — 



(/>) To buy or sell the heads of mountain sheep: 



(d) To expose for sale any deer without its head on, or any game bird without 

 its plumage. 



Specimens: [Sec] 12. The provisions of this Act shall not apply * * * to the 

 Curator of the Provincial Museum, or his assistant, assistants, or agent (appointed 

 by him in writing), while collecting specimens of natural history for the Provincial 

 Museum. * * ^ 



Sale seasons: [Sec] 13. No person shall buy or sell, or have in his or her pos- 

 session, any of the said animals or birds, or any part or portion of any such animals 

 or birds, during the period in which they are so protected: Provided always, that if 

 lawfully killed and obtained, they may be exposed for sale for five days, and no 

 longer, immediately after the commencement of such periods of protection. * * * 



Penalties: [Sec] 18. * * * Any person offending against any other provisions 

 [than sees. 8 and 14] of this Act or of any regulations under it shall be liable for each 

 offence, on conviction thereof in a summary manner as aforesaid, to a fine of not 

 more than one hundred dollars, with costs, to be levied by distress, or to imprison- 

 ment for any time not exceeding thirty days, or to both fine and imprisonment. 



May 20, 1898. 



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