142 DIGEST OF GAME LAWS FOR 1901. 



Sale of hares: [Sec] 3. No person shall hunt, take, kill, wound, sell, barter, receive, 

 purchase, or give away, any wild rabbit or hare, within this colony and its depen- 

 dencies, from the first day of March until the fifteenth day of September in any year, 

 under a penalty of twenty-five dollars, and, in default of payment, to be imprisoned 

 for a period not exceeding one calendar month: * * * Provided also, that with 

 the permission of a Magistrate such rabbit or hare may be taken ilive at any time 

 and in any district for the purpose of propagating the species. 



Acts of 1899, 62 and 63 Vic, cap. 18, pp. 222-225. 



Export: [Sec] 16. Save as excepted by this Act no person shall export the 

 carcase or skin or any part thereof of any caribou, nor shall the owner, master, officers 

 or crew of any vessel permit the exportation therein of the carcase or skin or any 

 part thereof of any caribou, except by a licensee, and under a permit of a Customs' 

 Officer. 



Export under license: [Sec] 17. («). A person holding a license under this Act 

 may export a carcase and antlers, skin or any part of any caribou killed under the 

 said license, upon entering the same at some Custom House for exportation and 

 receiving a permit therefor. Such person shall make oath or affirmation, specifying 

 the quantity and quality of the articles which he is about to export, and that the 

 same are portions of caribou killed under license held by him, specifying the person 

 from whom he obtained the said license, and the date thereof, and that the articles 

 about to be exported are not being exported as articles of commerce, and the licensee 

 shall thereupon pay a fee of fifty cents to the Officer of Customs before whom such 

 export entry is made, which fee the said Officer is hereby authorized to retain. 



(6) A person not a licensee, but domiciled in this Colony, may export the antlers, 

 head or skin of a caribou upon entering the same for exportation at a Custom House 

 in the Colony and receiving a special permit therefor. Such permit shall not be 

 granted except upon an affidavit made before the Customs' Officer to whom applica- 

 tion for a permit is made, stating the name of the owner of the article to be exported, 

 its destination, and the person from whom and place where it was obtained. The 

 affidavit shall be transmitted by the Officer of Customs to the Department of Finance 

 and Customs. 



Propag-ation: [Sec] 21. It shall be lawful for the Minister of Marine and Fish- 

 eries to authorize the capture and exportation of caribou alive and the killing and 

 exportation of caribou, or any part thereof, for the purpose of sale and of exchange 

 to and with game societies or to museums, societies or institutions in other countries, 

 despite any Act forbidding the exportation thereof; and the Minister of Marine and 

 Fisheries may expend any portion of the fund derived hereunder from licenses in 

 purchasing game birds or the eggs of game birds, or moose or elk or other wild 

 animals for the purpose of increasing and improving game. 



[Sec] 24, Any person who shall be convicted of any violation of the provisions 

 of this Act shall thereafter be incapable of receiving a license under this Act. 



Penalties: [Sec] 28. Any person who shall violate any section of this Act for 

 which no other penalty is herein provided shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five 

 hundred dollars, and in default of payment to imprisonment for any period not 

 exceeding six months. If the master, owner, officers or crew of any vessel be con- 

 victed of a violation of section sixteen, the penalty for such violation shall constitute a 

 claim against the said vessel, and become a lien thereon, and may be collected and 

 enforced by the seizure, confiscation and sale of the said vessel despite any change 

 of registry or ownership between the date of the office [offence] and the seizure of the 

 vessel. 



Passed June 19, 1899. 



