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valuable only for their fur (except otters, skunks, woodchuck, raccoon, weasels, 

 bears, wolves, loup-cerviers, wildcats, and foxes), Canada and ruffed grouse, com- 

 monly called partridge, pheasants, blackcock, capercailzie, ptarmigan, sharp-tailed 

 grouse, woodcock, snipe, blue-winged ducks, teal, and wood-ducks. 



Sale of moose or caribou: [Sec. ] 9. Every person who brings or sends the carcase 

 of a moose or caribou to the city of Halifax or any incorporated town for sale, shall 

 bring or send together therewith the neck and forelegs of such moose or caribou, and 

 shall retain and keep the same exposed, together with the meat so offered for sale, 

 and any failure to do so shall be a violation of this section. 



(2.) Any officer, member or agent of the Game and Inland Fishery Protection 

 Society of Nova Scotia, any game commissioner, or any police or detective ofl&cer or 

 constable, shall have the right, and it shall be his duty, to examine any carcase or 

 part of a carcase of a moose or caribou wherever found or seen, and generally to make 

 such search or enquiry as may be necessary for the purpose of ascertaining whether 

 or not there has been a violation of this section; he shall also have the right, and it 

 shall be his duty, to mark such neck and forelegs in such a manner as to render the 

 same easy of identification; and any one who obstructs, impedes or interferes with 

 such officer, member, agent, or other person in the discharge of his duty, or refuses 

 to give him information or help if requested, shall be guilty of a violation of this 

 section. 



(3. ) Any person violating this section shall be liable on conviction to a j^enalty not 

 exceeding fifty dollars. 



Licenses: [Sec] 23. Any game mentioned in this Act may be killed or taken at 

 any time for purposes of scientific investigation, and the eggs of game birds i)ro- 

 cured for propagation, a special license, setting forth the particular purpose of the 

 inquiry, and signed by the Provincial Secretary, or his deputy, having been first 

 obtained for that puipose from the Provincial Secretary's office. 



Passed February 15, 1896. 



ONTARIO. 



Statutes of Ontario, 63 Vic, 1900, chap. — . 



Game defi.ned: [Sec] 2. — (1) The expressions "game animal" and "game bird" 

 wherever the same occur in this Act, shall mean a bird or animal protected by the 

 provisions of this Act. [Deer, moose, reindeer or caribou, elk or wapiti, black and 

 grey squirrels, hare, cotton-tail rabbit, beaver, otter, muskrat; grouse, pheasant, 

 prairie fowl or partridge, woodcock, quail, wild turkey, swan, goose, duck or other 

 water fowl, snipe, rail, plover or other shore birds.] R. S. O. 1897, c. 287, s. 2. 



Special protection: [Sec] 7. (2) If at any time it shall appear that any migra- 

 tory game bird is in danger of extinction, and that the hunting, shooting and sale 

 thereof has been, or is about to be, by law forbidden in any two or more of the 

 United States of America lying to the south of the Province of Ontario, one of such 

 States being the State of New York or the State of Pennsylvania or the State of 

 Michigan, the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council may by Order-in-Council in like 

 manner protect such migratory game bird in this Province for the period in which 

 the same is protected in such States. 



(3) If at any time it shall appear that any game animal or non-migratory game 

 bird has for any reason become so diminished in numbers in this Province as to 

 require further protection than is afforded thereto by the provisions of this Act, the 

 Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council may by Order-in-Council forbid the hunting, shoot- 

 ing and sale thereof during any year or season in which such hunting, shooting and 

 sale would under the provisions of this Act be lawful. 



Hunting for Mre: [Sec] 12. No person shall for hire, gain or hope of reward, 

 hunt, kill or shoot any game birds or animals, or employ, hire or for valuable con- 



