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.

5. It shall be lawful for the Minister of Marine and Fisheries at any time to authorize the hunting, shooting, taking, killing 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 country 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.

6. Stipendiary Magistrates may, in their respective districts, by printed public notice prohibit the destruction of rabbits or hares within any part of such district, to be described and limited in such notice, for such time as may be deemed necessary for the propagation of such rabbits or hares in such parts of districts, under a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars, or, in default of payment, imprisonment for a period not exceeding one calendar month.

7. No person shall take, kill, wound, or destroy any otter within this Colony between the first day of April and the first day of October in any year, under a penalty of twenty-five dollars, or, in default of payment, imprisonment for a period not exceeding one calendar month.

8. Any constable' or peace officer may search any person whom he may have good cause to suspect of being unlawfully in possession of any birds or animals in this Chapter mentioned, and such constable or peace officer may stop and search any cart or other conveyance in which he may have good cause to suspect that any such birds or animals are being carried by such person; and should any such birds or animals aforesaid, be found upon such person, cart, or conveyance, he shall seize and detain such birds or animals.

9. Upen information, upon oath, in writing, being lodged with a Justice, of any person having in his possession, by secreting in his house or other building or place, any such birds or animals aforesaid in violation of the provisions of this Chapter, such Justice shall issue his warrant, directed to any constable or peace officer, to search therein; and should any such birds or animals aforesaid be found therein, such constable or peace officer shall seize and detain the same, and shall cite the offender before such Justice, to be dealt with according to law.

10. Married women concerned in any breach of the provisions of this Chapter shall be liable for the penalty attaching to such breach as if they were unmarried women or principals, but the husband of the person so offending shall not be liable to be also sued for the same offence; in the case of a married woman the fine or penalty imposed may be levied upon the property of the husband.

11. Any person resisting any constable or peace officer engaged in carrying out the provisions of this Chapter shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars, or, in default of payment, imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months.

12. Any person, except a traveller on a journey, found on Sunday carrying fire-arms shall be subject to a fine not exceeding forty dollars, or, in default of payment, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one month.

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Any constable or peace officer may arrest on view any person found violating the provisions of this Chapter.

14. Nothing contained in this Chapter shall extend to any poor settler who shall kill any birds or animals, mentioned in this Chapter, for his immediate consumption or that of his family.

15. Any offence against the provisions of this Chapter for which no penalty is hereinbefore specifically provided shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars, or, in default of payment, by imprisonment not exceeding one month.

16. All fines and penalties under this Chapter shall be sued for and recovered in a summary manner, on complaint before a Justice of the Peace, by any person who shall inform and sue for the same, and all penalties and forfeitures imposed under this Chapter shall be awarded and paid to such complainant who shall prosecute the offender to conviction; and such Justice of the Peace shall have power to award all costs and expenses consequent upon such complaint and prosecution, in addition to the penalty hereinbefore provided to be paid therewith.

1. Any person who shall hunt, kill, pursue or take any beaver within this Colony at any time from the first day of October, 1913, to the first day of October, 1918, shall, upon conviction, for the first offence, he imprisoned for two months with hard labor, with the option of a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, and not less than fifty dollars; for the second offence the penalty shall be imprisonment for six months with hard labor.

2. Any person who shall purchase, receive or have in his possession any skin or carcase of a beaver killed or taken in violation of the provisions of this Chapter shall be liable to a penalty for a first offence not exceeding two hundred dollars, or in default imprisonment not exceeding two months; and for a second offence shall be imprisoned for six months with hard labor.

3. Any person who advances or promises to advance any money or goods for the purpose of purchasing or procuring beavers or beaver skins, or who agrees to reward, or rewards any person for hunting, taking, exporting or procuring any beaver or beaver skins during the period mentioned in the first section, or who exports or causes to be exported any skin of a beaver shall, upon conviction, for a first offence, be imprisoned for two months with hard labor, with the option of a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and not less than two hundred dollars; for a second offence the penalty shall be imprisonment for one year with hard labor, together with a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and not less than two hundred dollars.

4. Upon a requisition in writing made to the Minister of Marine and Fisheries, permission may be granted to any scientific or zoological

body or society to hunt and capture not more than six live beavers for exportation from the Colony or otherwise.

5. Any Magistrate, Justice of the Peace, Constable, Customs' officer or game warden who believes or has reason to believe that any beavers or beaver skins are in or upon any house, shop, store, wharf or premises, vessel, or boat, or in any package or luggage, in contravention of this Chapter, may enter upon such house, shop, store, premises, vessel or boat, using, if necessary, sufficient force for the purpose, and search therein and open and examine the contents of any package or luggage, and should any beaver or beaver skins have been placed there with his knowledge and consent, the said owner or lessee, upon conviction, for a first offence, shall be imprisoned for two months with hard labor, with the option of a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and not less than fifty dollars; for a second offence the penalty shall be imprisonment for one year with hard labor, together with a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and not less than two hundred dollars.

6. The penalties under this Chapter shall be sued for and recovered in a summary manner before a Magistrate or Justice by any person, and one-half of the money penalty shall be awarded and paid to the person who shall prosecute an offender to conviction. The Magistrate or Justice before whom a conviction is had shall have power to award such one-half of the penalty to the said person.

7. If within the period mentioned in the first section of this Chapter, any person shall have in his possession any beaver or skin, or carcass of a beaver, such possession shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of this Chapter.

8. In addition to the penalties hereinbefore provided, all beavers and beaver skins found in the possession of any person in contravention of this Chapter shall be confiscated.

9. Whenever under any conviction under this Chapter, any skins or skin are or is confiscated the same may be exported by the usual export entry.

1. No person shall hunt, kill, or pursue with intent to kill, any fox within this Colony from the fifteenth day of March to the fifteenth day of October in any year, under a penalty for each offence not exceeding two hundred dollars, and not less than fifteen dollars, and confiscation of the animals or skins.

2.. Any Customs' officer who believes or has reason to believe that any luggage or package contains any skin or skins in contravention of the provisions of this Chapter, may open the same and examine its conter.rs.

3. The penalties under this Chapter shall be sued for and recovered in a summary manner before a Stipendiary Magistrate or Justice of the Peace by any person who shall sue for the same, and one half of the money penalty shall be awarded and paid to the person who shall prosecute an offender to conviction. The Justice or Magistrate before whom a conviction is had shall have power to award such one half of the penalty to the said person.

4. Whenever under any conviction under this Chapter, any skins or skin are or is confiscated the same may be exported by the usual export entry.