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Ihe following resolutions were proposed and 
carried : — 
I. That the Honorary Secrt?tary be request- 
ed to suiiiniarize the vaious suggestions made by 
nieinbers of the Society for the better protection of 
game in Ceylon and to forward the same to 
(Government. 
II. That copies of the Game Ordinances be pur- 
chased at tlie expense of the Society and distri- 
buted amongst the members. 
III. Tliat the Society regrets the indiscriminate 
manner in which licenses to kill game are issued 
to visitors to the island, affording privileges to them 
which far exceed those to local sportsmen. 
This last resolution was proy)Osed by a member 
who had been refused licen.ses to kill in a certain 
District more than one buffalo, when certain “ titl- 
ed ” visitors had been granted licenses to kill three 
or more in the same District. 
During this year the Honorary Secretary ob- 
tained from the Government Printer as many 
copies of the Game Oidinances printed in Tamil 
and Sinhalese as were available. These copies 
were distributed to members and were also sent 
to kr.nganies and coolies of certain estates where 
illegal destruction of game was being carried on 
On August 12th, 1896, a General-Meeting was 
held in Colombo at which the following gentle- 
men w'ere present : — 
II W levers, Esq., c.c.s. 
( President) 
F. C. Fisher, Esq., c.c.s. 
Lieut. A. 0. Pitman, k.a. 
A. M. Hurst, Esq. 
W. S. R. Cox, Esq. 
F. J. Saville, Esq. 
W.L. Murray-Menzies,Bs( 
Geo. Deane, Esq. 
H. Whitham, Esq. 
J. Wickwar, Esq. 
C. H. Bagot, Esq. 
H. O. Hoseason, Esq. 
F. G A. Lane, Esq. 
H. Wace, Esq., c.c.s. 
W. D. Bosanquet, Esq. 
H. J Vollar, Esq. 
A. n. Thomas, Esq., 
T.Farr,Esq.,Hon. Sec. 
At this meeting the Honorary Secretary read his 
summary of numerous suggestions made by experi- 
enced sportsmen with regard to the better protection 
of game in Ceylon, which was as follows : — 
Summary of suggestions received from a large 
number of spoitsmen in Ceylon having in view 
the better protection of game in the Island. 
Ordinance 10 of 1891, Sec. 3. — Game should 
include Paddy Field Deer (Atiis Porcinus.) 
Sec. 5 Sub. Sec. 2.— License to capture Tusker 
should be E250 or K300. 
If it is considered by Government that ele- 
phants require further protection, shooting at cow 
elephants should be forbidden. 
Sec. 5 Sub. Sec, 5. — License to kill or capture 
game should be raised to lilO for each Province 
or K20 for the whole Island. 
More stringent conditions and limits must be 
written on the backs of licenses by the Govern- 
ment Agents when issuing them. 
Close Season. — That a fixed period for the 
whole Island is inadvisable. That each Govern- 
ment Agent should ascertain from thoroughly ex- 
perienced sportsmen in his Province or District 
the right and proper season that should be de- 
clared “ closed,” and should issue licenses ac- 
cordingly. That gang hunting with beaters, dogs, 
and guns should be absolutely forbidden. Pitfalls, 
deadfall traps, large snares, spring guns and shoot- 
ing game from machans should be made illegal. 
That sanctuaries should be declared by fixing 
limited areas of forest, from entering which all 
persons should be debarred. 
That any person possessing fresh meat or raw 
hides or horns should be liable to account for 
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the same at any time, and that the Police or 
any Public Officer should have power to search 
for the same. 
That the export of deer and sambhur horns 
should be prohibited for 5 years at least. 
That guns should be licensed annually through- 
out the Island, the license to be obtainable at 
the local Post Office, and that in villages all 
guns should be handed in to the Kachcheri at 
the beginning of close season and restored at its 
termination to tbeir respective owners. 
That all Public Officers and a limited number 
of Members of Committee of the Game Protec- 
tion Society should be empowered to demand the 
production of his license from any person carry- 
ing a gun, and to seize the latter and send it to 
the nearest Police Magistrate on no license being 
produced. 
Ordinance No. 10, 1891 Sec. 11 (rf)— That a 
minimum penalty of RIO be imposed for every 
breach of this clause. After the words “ capture 
game ” should be inserted the words “ or aid 
and abet in the same.” 
The Conservators and Assistant Conservators 
of forests should be empowered to investigate 
all cases where any infringement of Ordinances 
Nos. 10 and 11, 1891, and No. 6, 1893, has oc- 
curred, and to administer the law as laid doWll 
by those Ordinances. 
That licenses to Immigrant labourers on estates 
should only be granted at the written request of 
the Superintendents of such estates. That the 
possession of live sambhur or deer should be an 
offence punishable by the law', as it is reported 
that a large trade is done in this manner. 
Complaints against the visitations of the Globe 
Trotter are frequent and emphatic, and the general 
opinion amongst members of this Society is that 
the present facilioies for sport afforded to visitors 
to the Island should bo discouraged by consider- 
ably increasing the cost of a license to such 
strangers, and that local sportsmen should not be 
unfairly restricted in the matter of obtaining 
licenses. 
A copy of the above suggestions was placed in 
the hands of H.E. the Governor who gave them 
his careful attention. 
At this same meeting it was resolved that a Sub- 
Committee consisting of Messrs. K. W. levers, 
F, C. Fisher, C. H. Bagot and T. Farr should be 
authorized to expend immediately a sum of R500 on 
the importation of game, and on the 14th August, 
1896 the Sub-Committee met to discuss the ex- 
penditure of this sum. 
It was resolved that the following gi.mc birds 
be imported at an early date : — Black Francolin, 
Chukhor, and Hungarian Partridges. 
The Hon. Secretary was requested to make 
enquiries regarding the importation of the Indian 
Antelope (Black Buck) and Cervus Hippelephus 
(Mauritius Deer). 
On March 1st, 1897, a General meeting was held 
at the Hill Club, Nuwara Eliya, at which the 
following gentlemen were present : — 
Allaason Bailey, Esq., c.c.s. ( Presidi nej ) . 
Captain Marker, a.-d. c. F G A Lane, Esq. 
E Boyd Moss,Esq.,C G Forests C H Bagot, Esq. 
W Ferguson, Esq., 
North C Davidson, Esq., 
A E Wright, Esq., 
J Fraser, Esq., 
R Jackson, Esq., 
Alderson Smith, E:;q. 
E Marker, Esq. 
T C Huxley, Esq. 
J Qnayde, Esq. 
J Wickwar, Esq. 
T Farr, Esq.— Hon. Sec, 
