148 DIGEST OF GAME LAWS FOR 1901. 
Any iiifrinjj:enKMit of the jirovisions of tliis article .«liall render the person guilty 
thereof hal)le to a tine not exceeding Slo.OO and not less than $5.00. 
Licenses: [Akt.] (i. The following articles are added to the Revised Statutes after 
article 1417a, as enacted hy the said act: 
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1417'/. The Coninii>^sioner may, ui)on ])ayinent to him of a fee according to a 
tariff estahlished hy the Lientenant-(iovernor in Council, grant to any person, com- 
]»any or corporati(»n keeping cold storage warehouses or to any hotel or restaurant 
keeper or to any clul), 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 1400<7 or 1420, provided that in all such cases the game has l)een 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 descri])es the place for which it is granted, gives the name and address 
of the })erson, company, corporation or club licensed, specifies the year for which 
it is issued, and is signed by the Commissioner, and countersigned by the Game 
Superintendent. 
All i)ersons, companies, corporations or clubs, license<l in virtue of this article, are 
prohibited from receiving after the end of the fifteenth day following tiie commence- 
ment of the close season, any game for the purpose of placing it in refrigerators or of 
selling it for consuni]>tion under this article. 
I Every game-keeper or other person authorized by the Commissioner may, at rea- 
sonable hours, inspect such warehouses and refrigerators, and seize therein any game 
he has reason to telieve 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 })art thereof 
confiscated for the benefit of the i)rovince. 
' The i)roof that game stored or sold for consumption under this article was lawfully 
killed or taken during the time when 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 w arehouse, 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 clul) receiving game for storage or for sale 
for consumjition or storing game contrary to the provisions of this article, shall l>e 
liable to a fine of S20.00 at least, and not more than SIOO.OO. 
' 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-! iovernor 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 
pos.«<ession for the puriK)se of sale of any game protected by the preceiling articles, or 
prolong, f<>r a similar time, the prohibition to sell, offer for sale or to iiave in posses- 
sion for the purpose of .«ale, any game of which the sale, exiK)sing for sale or the 
possession for the pm*pose of sale is prohibited by any provision of law. 
As-ente.l to March 2S, UKll. 
'Art. 1420. The Lieutenant-CJovernor in Council may, in iii:? discretion, prohibit 
the hunting or killing of any bird or fiir-U-aiing animal for a period not exceeding 
