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Acts of 1899, 62 and 63 Vic, cap. 27, p. 249. 
Export of grouse: [Sec] 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to export from this 
Colony for sale as an article of commerce any willow or other grouse, or partridge, 
under a penalty of live dollars for each bird so exported. 
Penalty: [Sec] 3. The penalty provided in the last preceding section may be 
sued for and recovered in a summary manner by any i>erson before an}' Justice of 
the Peace, and in default of payment of such penalty the person liable therefor may 
be sentenced by such Justice to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three 
months. 
Propag-ation: [Sec] 4. It shall be lawful for the Minister of Marine and 
Fisheries at any time to authorize the hunting, shooting, taking, kiUing and export 
of any willow or other grouse, or partridge, and the taking and export of the eggs of 
any such game for the purpose of exchange with, or presentation to any other 
colony or any game society, or otherwise, as he may deem expedient and advisable, 
and on such terms and conditions as he may see fit to impose. 
' Passed July 19, 1899. 
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES. 
Consolidated Ordinances 1898, chap. 85. 
Domestication: [Sec] 2. * * * Provided also that the fawn of any of the said 
animals [elk, moose, cariboo, antelope, deer, mountain sheep or goat] may be taken 
alive and domesticated. Xo. 15 of 1895, s. 1; Xo. 26 of 1897, ss. 1, 3. 
Export: [Sec] 13. Xo person or corporation shall at any time or in any manner 
export or cause to be exported or carried out of the limits of the Xorth-West Terri- 
tories any grouse, partridge, pheasant, prairie chicken, elk, moose, cariboo, antelope 
or their fawn. Xo. 8 of 1893, s. 11; Xo. 26 of 1897, s. 5. 
Penalties: [Sec] 14. Any violation of any of the provisions of this Ordinance 
shall be an offence punishable, on summary conviction before a justice of the peace, 
* * * with a fine not exceeding $50, with costs of prosecution, half of which fine 
shall be paid to the informer on his demand therefor and the other half shall be paid 
into the general revenue fund of the Xorth-West Territories. ^ * * On nonpay- 
ment of such fine and costs forthwith after conviction the offender shall be imprisoned 
in the nearest gaol for a period not exceeding two months. Xo. 8 of 1893, s. 12. 
Permits: [Sec] 16. The commissioner of agriculture upon application being made 
to him by any person may grant such person written permission to procure birds or 
eggs for scientific purposes during the close season. 
(2) Every such application shall state the kind and number of birds or eggs 
required and the special scientific purposes for which such birds or eggs are intended 
and every application shall be verified by affidavit of the applicant. Xo. 8 of 1893, 
s. 14; Xo. 26 of 1897, s. 6. 
Sale: [Sec] 18. Xo person shall at any time offer for sale, barter or exchange any 
prairie chicken that has been caught or killed by any person other than himself. 
Xo. 8 of 1893, s. 16. 
[Sec] 19. Xo person shall sell or expose for sale, barter or trade nor shall any 
person buy or obtain from any other person by barter or trade or in any other 
manner any mountain sheep or goat or any part thereof. Xo. 26 of 1897, s. 2. 
NOVA SCOTIA. 
Statutes of 1896, 59 Vic, chap. 4, pp. 11, 14. 
Game defined: [Sec] 2. * * * "Game" shall mean and include moose, 
caribou, red deer, American elk, beaver, hares, wild rabbits, minks,, and animals 
