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under game dealer's license as hereinbefore provided. The license fees shall Ije for 

 cities has'ing a population of over 100,000, $10; for cities having a population of over 

 50,000, S5; and in cities having a population of less than 50,000 and all other munici- 

 palities, SI. 62 Y. (2) c. 33, s. 5. 



Penalties: [Sec] 29. — (1) Any person committing any offence under this Act in 

 respect of deer, moose, elk, reindeer, cariboo * * * shall be liable for each 

 offence to a fine not exceeding S50 and not less than S20, together with the costs 

 of prosecution, and any person committing any other offence against any of the 

 proA"isions of this Act shall be liable for each offence to a fine not exceeding S25 and 

 not less than 85, together with the costs of prosecution, and in default of immediate 

 payment of such fine and costs, shall be imprisoned in the common gaol of the county 

 where such conviction takes place, for a period not exceeding three months. 62 V. 

 (2), c. 33, s. 10 (1). 



(3) A violation of this Act shall constitute a separate offence in respect of each 

 and every game animal or bird which is the subject thereof. * * * 



(4) Any person offending against any of the provisions of this Act who has been 

 convicted of the same or any other offence against this Act within two years there- 

 tofore, shall be liable to a penalty of not less than double the minimum jjenalty here- 

 inbefore provided for such second offence, and upon a third or any subsequent 

 conviction such person shall be liable to a penalty of not less than the maximum 

 penalty hereinbefore provided. 62 V. (2) c. 33, s. 10 (2). 



QUEBEC. 



Revised Statutes as amended by Statutes of 1899, 62 Vic, Chap. XXIV. 



Shipment: [Art.] 1397. After the first [fifteen]^ days of the close season, all 

 railway, steamboat and other companies, and public carriers, are forbidden to 

 carry [any moose, caribou or deer, the whole or any part of the flesh of such animal 

 or the green hide thereof. ] 



Any railway, steamboat or other comj^any or any person favoring in any manner 

 whatever the contravention of this article, shall be liable to a penalty [of not less 

 than ten dollars, and not more than twenty dollai-s.] 



Nevertheless, it is lawful for the Commissioner, at any time, to grant transport 

 permits when it has been established to his satisfaction that the moose, caribou or 

 deer or parts thereof which it is desired to transport have been taken or killed during 

 the time when hunting is allowed and 'm a lawful manner. 



For such permits there may be exacted a fee, the amount whereof shall be fixed 

 by the Commissioner, according to circumstances, but which shall not exceed five 

 dollars. 



Sale seasons: [Aet.] 1405. Every animal or bird j^rotected by the preceding 

 articles when lawfully taken or killed, or any portion of such animal or bird may be 

 bought or sold, during [fifteen days] to be computed from the expiration of the 

 period fixed by the section for the taking or killing thereof. 



Assented to February 25, 1899. 



Statutes of 1901, 1 Ed. VII, Chap. 12, p. 52-54. 



Sale of partridges: [Art.] 3. The following article is added after article 1400 of 

 the Revised Statutes, as enacted by the said act: 



1400rt. It is forbidden to sell, expose for sale or to have in possession for the pur- 

 pose of sale, any birch- or swamp-partridge before the first day of October, 1903. 



Every delivery of partridge, otherwise than merely gratuitous, shall constitute a 

 sale in the terms of this provision. 



^ Words in brackets indicate changes in the Revised Statutps. 



