28. Any person before whom by this Chapter an oath or affirmation shall or may be taken, is hereby authorized to administer the same 29. Any person knowingly or wilfully making a false bath or false affirmation under this Chapter, shall in addition to any other penalty to which he may be subject under this Chapter, be deemed guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury. 30. Any person who shall be convicted of any violation of the provisions of this Chapter, shall thereafter be incapable of receiving a license hereunder. 31. Whenever any person shall make affidavit in the form of Schedule D hereto before a Stipendiary Magistrate or before a Justice of the Peace, that he has reason to suspect and does suspect that any portion of the carcass of a caribou killed during any close season is concealed on the premises of any person, it shall be lawful for such Stipendiary Magistrate or Justice of the Peace to cause a search warrant to be issued in the form of Schedule E hereto authorizing the person to whom it is addressed to search such suspected premises, and seize and take any such portion of the carcass of a caribou found therein before such Stipendiary Magistrate or Justice, to be dealt with according to law, and the said Magistrate or Justice shall have power to confiscate the same. 32. It shall be the duty of the Magistrate or Justice, before whom a prosecution takes place, to send all caribou meat, when seized and confiscated under the provisions of this Chapter, to the Commissioner of the Poor or the Relieving Officer for the poor or to distribute the said meat amongst the poor if no Commissioner of the Poor or Relieving Officer reside within ten miles; the carcass, horns and head, when confiscated, shall be sold by the Magistrate or Justice, and the proceeds shall be paid to the Minister of Marine and Fisheries for the use of the Colony. 33. All fees when collected under this Chapter shall (unless otherwise provided) be remitted forthwith to the Minister of Marine and Fisheries, who shall place the same to the credit of a special account, and shall from such account pay for the services of wardens and other expenses in connection with the enforcement of this Chapter and the preservation and importation for propagation of game animals and birds, and the balance thereof he shall, at the termination of each financial year, pay over to the Minister of Finance and Customs for the general revenue of the VIA 34. All fines and penalties under this Chapter, except where otherwise provided, shall be sued for and recovered in a summary manner on information or complaint before a Justice of the Peace by any person who shall inform and sup for the same; and one-half of all fines, penalties and forfeitures'imposender this Chapter, except as aforesaid, shall be awarded and paid to such complainant who shall prosecute the offender to conviction, in addition to all costs and expenses consequent upon such information or complaint and prosecution, and the said Justice of the Peace shall have power to award the same, and the other part shall be paid to the Department of Marine and Fisheries for the purposes of this Chapter. 35. Any person who shall violate any section of this Chapter for which no penalty is herein provided shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, and in default of payment to imprisonment for any period not exceeding six months. 36. If a fine of fifty dollars or upwards, or a term of imprisonment of one month or more, is imposed for a violation of this Chapter, the person convicted may within one week after judgment, upon giving security satisfactory to the convicting Magistrate or Justice, appeal to the Supreme Court. 37. If upon the trial of any person charged with a violation of the third section of this Chapter, the Magistrate or Justice trying the case is satisfied that such person actually needed any caribou killed by him as food for himself a: d family, he may dismiss the proceeding: Provided that any decision of the Magistrate or Justice under this section shall not form a ground of appeal under this Chapter. SCHEDULE A. Form of License to Hut, Kill and Pursue Caribou. THE PRESERVATION OF DEER ACT. According to the p.ovisions of "The Preservation of Deer Act" permission is hereby given to of .. .. to kill stag ca.ilou in Newfoundland during the season from the day until the ... day of ... in the year both days inclusive, he having paid the license fee of one hundred dollars, and having made the oath (or affirmation) required by the said Act. SCHEDULE B. Form of License for person employed in a Hunting Expedition and not Domiciled in Newfoundland. THE PESERVATION OF DEER ACT. Under the provisions of "The Preservation of Deer Act" permission is hereby given to .... of ... to accompany of who has obtained and holds a license to hunt, kill or pursue caribou, dated ... in the capacity of a fee of fifty dollars having been paid by the said and the oath (or affirmation) required by the said Act having been made by the said ...... Dated at this day of SCHEDULE C. A.D. Form of License for persons employed on a Hunting Expedition THE PRESERVATION OF DEER ACT. Under and by virtue of the provisions of "The Preservation of Deer Act," permission is hereby given to of to ac he having first made the oath (or affirmation) as required by said Act. The information of in the Island of Newfoundland, who saith that he has reason to suspect and does suspect that (here state the offence against the Act, such as "Meat of caribou is concealed in the premises or property of A. B., of C., in the District of D., and that such caribou was killed in close season in the district of D. by E. F., of C., aforesaid), and (here state the cause of suspicion). Wherefore he prays that a search warrant may be granted to search such property for the same. Sworn (or affirmed) before me, this day of SCHEDULE E. Search Warrant. THE PRESERVATION OF DEER ACT. Newfoundland, To all or any of the Constables in the District of Whereas of ... in the district of has this day made oath (or affirmed) before me, the undersigned, that he hath reason to suspect and doth suspect (here state the offence; see Schedule D). These are, therefore, to require you in His Majesty's name with pro- · per assistance, diligently to search such premises or property in the day time for the said and if you shall find the same or any part thereof, you shall bring the same before me or any other Justice of the Peace or Stipendiary Magistrate, to be dealt with according to law. 1. No person shall hunt, wound, kill, take, sell, purchase, or give away, or have in his possession any ptarmigan or willow grouse (commonly called partridge), or any other kind of grouse or partridge, or the eggs of any such birds, within this Colony between the twelfth day of January and the first day of October, in any year, under a penalty of not less than twenty-five dollars or more than one hundred dollars, or in default of payment, of imprisonment not exceeding three months: Provided that any person who shall actually have in his possession at or upon the twelfth day of January aforesaid any ptarmigan or willow grouse shall be allowed to offer for sale such ptarmigan or willow grouse, until the twenty-second day of January in such year. 2. No person shall hunt, wound, kill, take, sell, purchase, or give away, or have in his possession, any curlew, plover, snipe, or other wild or migratory birds (excepting wild geese), or the eggs of any such birds, within the Colony, between the twelfth day of January and the twentieth day of August in each year, under a penalty of not less than twenty-five dollars, or more than one hundred dollars, or, in default of payment, of imprisonment not exceeding three months. 3. 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 five dollars for each bird so exported. 4. The penalty provided in the last preceding section may be sued for and recovered in a summary manner by any person before any Justice |