148 DIGEST OF GAME LAWS FOR 1901. 



Any infringement of the jDrovisions of this article shall render the person guilty 

 thereof liable to a tine not exceeding S15.00 and not less than $5.00. 



Licenses: [Art.] 6. The following articles are added to the Revised Statutes after 

 article 1417«, as enacted by the said act: 



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1417ff. The Commissioner may, upon payment to him of a fee according to a 

 tariff established by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, grant to any person, com- 

 pany or corporation keeping cold storage warehouses or to any hotel or restaurant 

 keeper or to any club, an annual license permitting of the keeping in such cold 

 storage warehouses or in refrigerators, during the close season, game to be used as 

 food, and in addition, if it concerns a hotel, restaurant or club, to serve for consump- 

 tion therein, during the close season, all game of which the sale is not prohibited in 

 virtue of article 1400rt or 1420, provided that in all such cases the game has been law- 

 fully taken or killed during the time when hunting is permitted. 



The application for the license must be in writing and give a description of the 

 place in which such game is to be stored. 



The license describes the place for which it is granted, gives the name and address 

 of the person, company, corporation or club licensed, specifies the year for which 

 it is issued, and is signed l\v the Commissioner, and countersigned l)y the Game 

 Superintendent. 



All persons, companies, corporations or clubs, licensed in virtue of this article, are 

 prohibited from receiving after the end of the fifteenth day following the commence- 

 ment of the close season, any game for the purpose of placing it in refrigerators or of 

 selling it for consumption under this article. 



I Every game-keeper or other person authorized by the Commissioner may, at rea- 

 sonable hours, in&2)ect such warehouses and refrigerators, and seize therein any game 

 he has reason to believe to have been taken or killed during the close season or by 

 any unlawful means or having been received after the end of the fifteenth day fol- 

 lowing the commencement of the close season, and bring it before a justice of the 

 peace who, if the law has been infringed, shall declare the whole or part thereof 

 confiscated for the benefit of the province. 



' The proof that game stored or sold for consumption under this article was lawfully 

 killed or taken during the time vrhen hunting is permitted, or that it has not been 

 received for storage or for sale for consumption after the end of the fifteenth day fol- 

 lowing the commencement of the close season, is at the charge and expense -of the 

 person, company or corporation keeping the cold storage warehouse, or of the pro- 

 prietor of the hotel or restaurant, or of the club, in which the game is found. 

 • Every person, company, corporation or club receiving game for storage or for sale 

 for consumption or storing game contrary to the j^rovisions of this article, shall be 

 liable to a fine of §20.00 at least, and not more than §100.00. 



Special sale prohibition: [Art.] 7. Article 1420 of the Revised Statutes,^ as 

 enacted by the said act, is amended by adding thereto the following clause: 



The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may also, whenever he deems it expedient, 

 prohibit, for a term not exceeding three years, the sale, the offering for sale, or the 

 possession for the purpose of sale of any game protected by the preceding articles, or 

 prolong, for a similar time, the prohibition to sell, offer for sale or to have in posses- 

 sion for the purpose of sale, any game of which the sale, exposing for sale or the 

 possession for the purpose of sale is prohibited by any provision of law. 



Assented to March 28, 1901. 



' Art. 1420. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may, in his discretion, prohibit 

 the hunting or killing of any bird or fur-l>earing animal for a period not exceeding 

 five years. 



