APRIL 14, 1906.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 

residents or reduce it; and by the very terms of 
their leases the lessees are bound to submit. 
“Tn imposing this fee, therefore, the Province 
is not wanting in good faith toward lessees of 
hunting and fishing territories, but simply apply- 
ing the law to them and asking them to conform 
to the provisions of their contracts. 
“But if we take Mr. White’s particular case, 
and if we carefully examine the circumstances 
under which he obtained possession of the terri- 
tory at present occupied by his club, we find that 
he secured it by sub-lease from Mr. Poupore, the 
former Member of Parliament for Pontiac, be- 
fore the passage of the Order-in-Council making 
an exception which dispensed non-resident mem- 
bers of a club incorporated in this Province from 
paying the tax of $25. 
“There cannot then be any violation of promise 
given to Mr. White, since when he obtained his 
territory in 1901, the Order-in-Council which he 
invokes to-day was not in existence. : 
“Mr. White forgets, too, in his specious argu- 
ments, the true consideration of his lease. 
“For the trifling sum of $120 per annum, his 
club possesses, for ten years, the exclusive privi- 
lege of hunting on a territory of thirty-five square 
miles in the townships of Waltham and Chi- 
chester, in the county of Pontiac, and exclusive 
fishing rights in Lakes Germain, Nekabong, 
Jewel, Crockett, Deep and Two Islands, as well 
as in all the water courses and dead waters con- 
necting these lakes, in a good number of lakes 
comprised in the hunting territory already de- 
scribed, and in Lake Calumet. All these magni- 
ficent lakes are situated between lots 19 and 33 
of ranges 9, 10, 11 and 12 of Chichester township. 
“Now, Mr. White and the members of his club, 
although non-residents of the Province, have the 
right to demand the payment of a penalty by any 
resident of this Province who might attempt to 
hunt in this territory, which, according to the 
terms of his contract, the Province reserves for 
him, for the moderate sum of $120. 
“This is a consideration which residents have 
to pay just the same as non-residents; but it is 
necessary not to confound the price of this con- 
sideration with the amount of the license fee 
exacted from non-residents. 
“Suppose that the Lieutenant-Governor in 
Council shouuld impose upon the residents of 
the Province the payment of a license fee, those 
of them who are members of clubs would cer- 
tainly have to pay for the right to hunt, in addi- 
tion to the price of their lease. 
“Why, then, not the non-resident ? 
““But,’ writes Mr. White, ‘no country in the 
civilized world, at least in the British Empire, 
would commit such an injustice.’ 
“But Mr. White forgets, like so many others, 
that he has a beam in his eye, and that his own 
Province makes residents of the Province of 
Quebec pay license fees even when they are mem- 
bers of clubs in the Province of Ontario. Never- 
theless, like Mr. White, these non-residents spend 
considerable sums of money in Ontario for the 
maintenance of buildings, etc. 
“The Government of this Province, like all 
other responsible advisers of the British Empire, 
is charged with the duties of the Crown and re- 
spects its contracts to the letter, but it is also a 
jealous guardian of its own rights. 
“T do not hesitate to say that ever since the 
confederation of the Provinces, that of Quebec 
has set a good example to the others in this re- 
spect. 
“Minorities are protected, and never have we 
taken advantage of the more or less ambiguous 
text of the British North American act to at- 
tempt to take from our fellow-citizens of different 
origins from us, the rights which belong to them 
by usage and by law. 
“Mr. White makes the remark that it would be 
preferable for the Government to increase the 
price of the leases as the present contracts ex- 
pire. 
“T have taken a note of his suggestion and I 
assure him that when the lease of his club ex- 
pires, the price will be increased sufficiently to 
afford him complete satisfaction.” 
ALFRED PELLAND, 
Publicist of the Department of Colonization, 
Mines and Fisheries. 
Massachusetts Fish and Game Bills. 
Boston, Mass., April. 6—Editor Forest and 
Stream: In a former letter I mentioned that 
the late chairman of the Massachusetts Fish and 
Game Commission, Captain Collins, declared it 
to be his purpose, so long as he held that office, 
to labor for such legislation as would confer on 
the Commissioners and their deputies the right to 
compel men afield under circumstances that 
strongly indicated a violation of law, to “show 
up” whatever of fish or game they had about 
them. 
In general terms thas has been designated “the 
right of search,’ and at each session of the 
Legislature for several years prior to the Cap- 
tain’s death a bill looking to this end was offered 
by some one, but legislators have regarded the 
measure as one that infringed upon personal lib- 
erty and felt that there was danger of wardens 
abusing the power thereby given them; and year 
after year the bill has been turned down. 
Such a bill (Senate 121) accompanying the 
petition of George W. Field, has now been favor- 

MR. NEWBERRY’S BIG CUBAN POMPANO, 
ably reported by the committee and has, by a 
small majority, taken its second reading in the 
Senate. It provides that a deputy may demand 
of any person who is, in the opinion of such 
officer, “engaged in the taking, killing, hunting, 
trapping or snaring of fish, birds or mammals 
contrary to law’; that such person shall forth- 
with display for the inspection of such commis- 
sioner or deputy any and all fish, etc., then in his 
possession; and the refusal to comply with such 
demand shall be “prima facie evidence” that said 
person is engaged in the taking of fish or game, 
as the case may be, contrary to law. It also pro- 
vides that deputies “may call upon any person or 
persons to assist them” in enforcing the fish and 
game laws, and, on refusal, a penalty of one 
month’s imprisonment or a fine not exceeding $50 
may be imposed. 
In the debate upon the bill some of the lawyers 
in the upper branch on Wednesday objected to 
it on the ground that it is unconstitutional, but 
I learn from the Commissioners that the bill was 
drawn in the office of the Attorney-General, 
which would seem to warrant the assumption 
that in the opinion of that officer the bill is all 
right. Its enactment would greatly facilitate the 
work of the sixteen paid deputies now on the 
force. It seems that it would very nearly double 
the efficiency of their work, and certainly the trial 
of such a law for one year could work no great 
harm. If when the Legislature convenes next 
year its workings are known to be in any way 
bad it can be repealed: 
595 
The Non-Sale Bills. 
_ The Committee on Fish and Game has reported 
in favor of prohibiting the buying, selling or hav- 
ing in possession of a priarie chicken (Tym- 
panuchus americanus and Pediocetes phasianel- 
lus) or any part thereof, whenever or wherever 
taken. Possession is made prima facie evidence 
of violation of law and the penalty is placed at 
20 for each bird or part thereof. The act to 
take effect Jan. I, 1907. 
As this has been agreed to by the Boston 
dealers no organized opposition is anticipated in 
either branch of the Legislature. 
The committee report a bill to prohibit the sale 
of ducks during the time it is illegal to kill them. 
Black duck and teal may be sold from Sept. 1 to 
March 1, other ducks from Sept. 1 to May 20. 
The sale of quail is allowed by the bill re- 
ported during the months of November and De- 
cember, provided they were not killed in this 
Commonwealth, nor taken, killed, bought, sold, 
or transported contrary to the laws of any State 
or country. Your readers will observe that two 
months are allowed by the bill instead of six 
months allowed by the present law. For ducks 
and quail provision is made for putting them in 
cold storage under seals, which are to be affixed 
to the receptacles by the Commissioners and may 
be removed by them and by no one else. 
If these several bills go through without modi- 
fication the sportsmen of the Old Bay State will 
have won a substantial victory for the preserva- 
tion of game birds. 
The bill removing the farmer’s privilege of 
snaring on his own land is meeting with no seri- 
ous opposition in either branch. 
The bill prohibiting the sale of trout, not artifi- 
cially reared, is likely to be made a permanent 
law. There is also some prabability that the sea- 
son for taking trout will be somewhat changed, 
and it may be made uniform throughout the 
State. 
It will be observed that the exceptional season 
for quail shooting in Bristol county will be done 
away with and the season there will be the same 
as in the other counties, if the quail bill reported 
by the committee is enacted. -H. H. Kimpa tt. 
A Queer Fish. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
While trolling around Salt Key yesterday I 
had a very sudden and violent strike and my line 
was nearly exhausted before the first rush was 
checked, in spite of full use both of my pad 
brake and the admirable Rabbeth drag, which is 
attached to my reel. Then followed a combat 
equal in strength to that furnished by a 4o-pound. 
amberjack, but with longer rushes. I expected to 
develop a 50-pound kingfish, but finally brought 
to gaff the strange fish of which a photograph is 
inclosed herewith. 
This fish was thirty-eight inches long, fifteen 
inches deep, less than four inches in greatest 
thickness and weighed 24 pounds. The pectoral 
fin was a foot long, crescent-shaped and very 
narrow. He was dressed in light blue and silver 
with most beautiful pink and pearl iridescence, 
and the broad upper lip was a deep and brillant 
blue. The other fins were greenish with strong 
dark spots. 
My crew called him a whipfish, but said they 
had never seen one so large. Another African 
fisherman insisted that he was a “permit.” In 
general style he seemed to me similar to the nu- 
merous and varied tribe of jacks, though very 
different from any species familiar to me. Can 
you or any of your readers help me to place him? 
A. St. J. NEWBERRY. 
Nassau, March 20. 
[The fish appears to be a Hynnis cubensis, one 
of the larger fishes of the pompano family. It is 
usually found about three feet long and is rather 
rare. Its most familiar locality is the waters of 
Cuba. There is no common name for the fish, 
but Mr. C. H. Townsend, Director of the New 
York Aquarium, suggests that it might be called 
a big crevalle.] 
Eastport, L. I., April 5.—I must compliment 
you on the Forest AND STREAM in its new dress. 
It’s just all right. GrorGE E. JANTZER. 
