PROVINCIAL LAWS. 
BRITISH COLUMBIA. 
Statutes of 1898, 61 Vic, chap. 24, pp. 123-125. 
Game birds defined: [Sec] 2. * * * The expression ''game bird," wherever 
the same occurs in this Act, shall mean a bird protected by the provisions of this 
Act. [Birds living on noxious insects, bittern, blackbird (English), chaflEinch, duck, 
grouse (including prairie chicken), gull, heron, linnet, meadowlark, partridge 
(English), pheasant, plover, quail, robin, gkylark, thrush.] 
Export: [Sec] 4. Xo person shall at any time purchase or have in possession, 
with intent to export, or cause to be exported or carried out of the limits of this 
Province, or shall at any time or in any manner export, or cause to be exported or 
carried oiit of the limits of this Province, any or any portion of the animals or birds 
mentioned in this Act [deer, elk, moose, caribou, mountain sheep, mountain goat, 
hare, quail, partridge, grouse, pheasant, duck and certain nongame birds enumerated 
in section 2], in their raw state: and this provision shall apply to railway, steamship 
and express companies. In determining the question of intent of any party charged 
mider this section, any competent proof that the accused has within one year exported, 
or caused to be exported or carried beyond the limits of this Province, any bird or 
animal covered by this section, or any part of such bird or animal, shall be received 
as prima facie evidence of the existence of such unlawful intent charged in the 
complaint or information: Provided that it shall be lawful for any person having a 
licence under section 15 of this Act to export, or cause to be exported or carried 
out of the Province, the heads, horns and skins of such animals mentioned in 
section 9, subsection (d), of this Act, as have been legally killed by such licence- 
holder: Provided that the provisions of this section shall not apply to bear or beaver, 
marten or land otter. 
Sale: [Sec] 9. It shall be unlawful for any person at any time — 
(6) To buy or sell the heads of mountain sheep: 
((7) To expose for sale any deer without its head on, or any game bird without 
its plumage. 
Specimens: [Sec] 12. The provisions of this Act shall not apply * * * to the 
Curator of the Provincial Museum, or hLs assistant, assistants, or agent (appointed 
by him in writing), while collecting specimens of natural history for tiie Provincial 
Museum. * * * 
Sale seasons: [Sec] 13. No person shall buy or sell, or have in his or her pos- 
session, any of the said animals or birds, or any part or portion of any such animals 
or birds, during the period in which they are so protected: Provided always, that if 
lawfully killed and obtained, they may be exposed for sale for five days, and no 
longer, immediately after the commencement of such periods of protection. * * * 
Penalties: [Sec] 18. * * * Any person offending against any other provisions 
[than sees. 8 and 14] of this Act or of any regulations under it shall be liable for each 
offence, on conviction thereof in a summary manner as aforesaid, to a fine of not 
more than one hundred dollars, with costs, to be levied by distress, or to imprison- 
ment for any time not exceeding thirty days, or to both fine and imprisonment. 
May 20, 1898. 
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