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Sale: [Sec] 7. Notwitlistanding anything in tliis Act contained it sliall be 

 lawful to 



{h) Buy, sell, offer or expose for sale 



I. Any wild goose or brant between the end of the close season for killing such 

 game, in any year, and the first day of March then next following: 



II. Any jmrtridge within the County of Northumberland, provided that such 

 partridge be killed in open season within such County and be not exported therefrom. 



liicenses: [Sec] 44. The Surveyor General may issue licenses not inconsistent 

 with any law of the Dominion of Canada, authorizing the exportation from the 

 Province, or the transportation within the Province of any game, whether alive or 

 dead, and the Surveyor General may also issue licenses permitting 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 Ije valid 

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

 sioner or warden who may have issued the same. 



Acts of 1900, 63° Vic, Cap. XXXIX, pp. 207-210. 



Sale, Partridg-e: [Sec] 1. Everyone is guilty of an offence and liable to the 

 penalty hereinafter provided who * * * buys or sells or offers or exposes for 

 sale * * * any partridge between the date of the passage of this act and the 

 fifteenth day of Sej^tember A. D. 1903. [Penalty, fine ^lO-^'^O or imprisonment 

 10-20 days.] 



Export of partridg-es : [Sec] 13. (1) No person, under a penalty of not less than 

 ten dollars or more than twenty-five dollars for each offence shall hunt, take or kill 

 any partridge or partridges for the purpose of exporting the same, or export or 

 attempt to export the same out of New Brunswick, and in all cases the onus of prov- 

 ing that any such partridge or partridges so hunted, taken or killed, is, or are not 

 intended to be exported as aforesaid shall be upon the person hunting, taking or 

 killing the same, or in whose possession or custody the same may be found, and the 

 partridge or partridges so attempted to be exported shall be forfeited, and may, on 

 reasonable cause of suspicion of intention to export, be seized by any Game Warden 

 or other person for such purpose appointed and authorized by the Surveyor General. 

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(3) Upon i^roof having been made that any person or persons have exported or 

 attempted to export any partridge or partridges in violation of sub-section (1) of 

 this section, it shall be presumed that the same were killed within the Province 

 until the contrary is shown beyond any reasonable doubt. 



Passed April 12, 1900. 



NEWFOUNDLAND . 



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



Sale of ptarmigan: [Sec] 1. No person shall hunt, kill, wound, take, sell, bartar, 

 purchase, receive, give away, or have in his possession, any ptarmigan or willow 

 grouse (commonly called partridge), or any other kind of grouse or partridge, or the 

 eggs of any such birds within this colony between the twelfth day of January and 

 the fifteenth day of September in any year, under a penalty of not exceeding one 

 hundred dollars, or, in default of payment, of imprisonment not exceeding three 

 months: * * * Provided further, That any person who shall actually have in his 

 possession at or upon the twelfth day of January aforesaid, any ptarmigan or willow 

 grouse shall be allowed to offer for sale such ptarmigan or willow grouse mitil the 

 twenty-second day of January in each year. 



