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geese or wavevs, between Mav 1 and August 15. (e) Otter, 
fisher or pekan, beaver, muskrat and sable, between !May 15 
and October 1. Mink and marten between April 15 and 
November 1. No person is allowed to hunt with dog, gun, 
net or otherwise, within the enclosed grounds or lands of 
another without first obtaining permission from the owner, 
agent, or occupant of such grounds or lands. In order to 
encourage persons who have imported, or may import, different 
kinds of game with the desire to breed the same on their own 
lands, no person is allowed to hunt, shoot, kill or destroy any 
such game without the consent of the owner of the property 
wherever the same may be bred. Most of the wild birds are 
protected bv law against capture, destruction, or injury, and, 
excepting the birds whose close times have already been enu- 
merated, it is illegal to take, kill, or injure anv birds save the 
following, which are unprotected : eagles, falcons, hawks, owls, 
wild pigeons, blackbirds, kingfishers, javs, crows, ravens, snow 
buntings or snow birds, shrikes, bitterns, curlews, cranes, 
grackles, cormorants, gulls, mergansers, pelicans, and loons. 
The penaltv for infringing any of the bve-laws for the protec- 
tion of game is a fine of from 21. to 10/., and costs. 
To assist in carrving out the stringent regulations relating 
to the diseases of animals, the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council 
appoints, from time to time, as officers of the Department, one 
or more veterinary surgeons qualified to practise in the Pro- 
vince, and each person so appointed is known as a district 
veterinarian, because he has a certain district assigned to his 
jurisdiction. Any such veterinarian may at any time enter 
any common, field, stable, cowshed, or other premises where he 
has reasonable grounds for supposing that anv animal affected 
with infectious or contagious disease is to be found. The 
penalty for impeding or obstructing such entrv is a fine of 207. 
The veterinarian, considering a place to be infected, sends, 
with all speed, a copy of his certificate to the Department : 
and if it appears that contagious or infectious disease exists, as 
declared by the veterinarian, the Minister mav so determine 
and declare, and mav prescribe the limits of the infected place, 
and may from time to time extend or curtail such limits bv 
means of notice in the • Manitoba Gazette." If anv animal, 
hide, skin, hair, wool, horn, hoof, offal, carcass, meat, dung, 
hay, straw, litter or other thing, is moved in contravention 
of the rules with respect to infected places, the offender is 
liable to a fine of 20/. A similar penaltv is incurred by any 
owner, breeder, or dealer, or bv any veterinarv surgeon who, on 
perceiving the appearance of infectious or contagious disease, 
fails to give immediate notice in writing to the Department at 
