Locality.

Map.

Plan and specification.

Scale of rates.

Undertaking.

Cancellation for

breach of conditions.

Loans to licensee.

Repayment of loan.

(a.) A statement or description of the locality in respect whereof a depot is intended to be established, setting forth as nearly as may be the number and area of orchards to be served, and the number of fruit growers and dealers in fruit in the locality, and the means of transportation available to and from the intended site of the depot:

(b.) A map or plan of the locality in respect whereof a depot is intended to be established, shewing the intended site with reference to existing means of transportation:

(c.) A plan and specification of the depot intended to be established, setting forth all particulars of the undertaking in detail:

(d.) A scale of rates and charges intended to be established in connection with the business of the depot; and

(e.) An undertaking under the seal of the applicant to duly and fully observe, carry out and fulfil the conditions prescribed in and by section 3 of this Act.

And no licence shall be issued until the applicant therefor has complied with the provisions of this section to the satisfaction of the Provincial Board of Horticulture.

5. Any licence issued under this Act may be cancelled by resolu tion of the Provincial Board of Horticulture, in the event of any breach or contravention by the licensee of any of the provisions of such licence or of this Act.

6. It shall be lawful for the Lieutenant-Governor in Council to lend out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund to any licensee under this Act such sum of money, not exceeding three thousand dollars, and not exceeding three-fifths of the value of the lands and property tendered as security for the repayment of the loan, as may be proved to the satisfaction of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council to be sufficient to enable such licensee to establish and equip a depot in accordance with the provisions of the licence, when added to the funds and moneys of the licensee already available for use towards the establishment and equipment of such depot: Provided that the aggregate of all such loans shall not at any time exceed twenty-five thousand dollars.

7. Every such loan shall be repayable with interest at the rate of five per centum per annum, at such times and in such manner as the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may prescribe, and shall be

secured by a first mortgage on lands and property, including the depot established under the licence, and shall contain a provision making all moneys secured thereby immediately due and payable, and all powers thereunder immediately exercisable if the licence held by the borrower under this Act be cancelled by the Provincial Board of Horticulture.

VICTORIA, B. C.

Printed by RICHARD WOLFENDEN, I.S.O., V.D., Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty,
1909.

[12th March, 1909.]

H

IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as the "Game Protection Act, 1898, Short title. Amendment Act, 1909."

2. Section 4 of chapter 24 of the Statutes of 1898, being the Re-enacts s. 4. "Game Protection Act, 1898," as amended by chapter 25 of the Statutes of 1905, is hereby repealed and the following section is substituted therefor:

tain animals and

hibited.

"4. No person shall at any time purchase or have in possession, Exportation of ce with intent to export, or cause to be exported, or carried out of the game birds prolimits of this Province, or shall at any time or in any manner export, or cause to be exported or carried out of the limits of this Province, any or any portion of the animals or birds mentioned in this Act, and this provision shall apply to railway, steamship and express companies. In determining the question of intent of any party charged under this section, any competent proof that the accused has within one year exported, or caused to be exported or carried beyond the limits of this Province, any bird or animal covered by this section, or any part of such bird or animal, shall be received as primâ facie evidence of the existence of such unlawful intent charged in the complaint or information: Provided that it shall be lawful for any person having a licence under section 15 of this Act to export, or cause to be exported or carried out of the Licensee under s. 15 Province, the heads, horns and skins of such animals mentioned in Schedule B of this Act, as have been legally killed by such licenceholder: Provided that the provisions of this section shall not apply to bear, marten or land otter."

may export heads,

etc., of animals killed by him.

Re-enacts s. 5.

No person may
hunt, etc., birds or
animals imported
for acclimatization.

Re-enacts sub-sec. (b) of sec. 9.

Unlawful to buy, etc., heads of mountain sheep.

Re-enacts s. 10.

Prohibition of the
hunting and killing,
sale and purchase,
of certain animals
and game birds.

Re-enacts s. 12.

Provisions of Act not to apply to certain persons.

3. Section 5 of said chapter 24 is hereby repealed and the following section is substituted therefor:

"5. No person shall hunt, trap, take, shoot at, kill or wound any game birds or animals hereafter imported for acclimatization purposes and distributed in any part of the Province, until such time, and thereafter under such regulations, as the Lieutenant-Governor shall appoint and make under the provisions of section 23 hereof. The provisions of this Act relating to the possession, export or import of game birds or animals shall not apply to the importer, breeder or owner thereof where such game birds or animals are kept, or are to be kept alive in parks, pleasure grounds or private preserves or enclosures, after the written permission of the I'rovincial Game Warden to the taking, sale, disposition, export or import thereof alive for any such purposes for the time and according to the laws set forth in any such permission, nor shall any person at any time import any live animal or bird into this Province without the written permission of the Provincial Game Warden therefor."

4. Sub-section (b) of section 9 of the said chapter 24 as amended by section 5 of chapter 25 of the Statutes of 1905, is hereby repealed and the following sub-section is substituted therefor:

"(b.) To buy or sell, or to offer to buy or sell, the heads of mountain sheep, elk, moose or caribou, or the teeth of wapiti or elk."

5. Section 10 of the said chapter 24, as amended by section 13 of said chapter 25 of the Statutes of 1905, is hereby repealed, and the following section is substituted therefor:

"10. It shall be unlawful to catch, kill, destroy or pursue, or to buy, sell or expose for sale, show or advertisement, any of the game birds or animals, or any part thereof, during the close seasons and prohibited times of sale set out in the following Schedule B, which is deemed to be part of this Act, or otherwise contravene the provisions thereof, except that, north of the 55th parallel of latitude, it shall be unlawful to shoot or destroy duck of any kind, or grouse, including ptarmigan, from March 30th to September 15th.”

6. Section 12 of the said chapter 24, as amended by section 6 of chapter 28 of the Statutes of 1902, and by section 5 of chapter 25 of the Statutes of 1905, is hereby repealed and the following section is substituted therefor:—

"12. The provisions of this Act shall not apply to Indians or resident farmers in unorganised districts (except in any game reserve or where an Order in Council has declared a close season for such animal), with regard to deer killed for their own or their families' use for food only, and not for the purpose of sale