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Rh 4. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to use an automatic shot-gun in the pursuit of game in this Province. The penalty for offending against the provisions of this section shall be not less than fifty dollars or more than two hundred and fifty dollars for each offence. This section shall not come into force until proclaimed by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council.

34. (b) It shall be unlawful for any person, (other than officers and men of His Majesty's Army and Navy and of the permanent Corps of Militia for the time being on active service in the Province), who is not actually domiciled and has not been in actual residence for six months in this Province, at any time to angle (as the term is generally understood) for any fish in this Province, without first having obtained a licence in that behalf. Such licence shall be in the form set out in schedule D hereto, and the fee for such licence shall be five dollars.

"The fee to be paid for a general licence to hunt for or shoot any animal or bird, and to angle, shall be $100, but such licence shall not give the holder the right to kill more than two moose, two wapiti, two mountain rams of any one species, or more than three in all; three goats, three caribou and three deer of any one species, or more than five in all; or more than two hundred and fifty ducks. .Such licence shall only hold good between January 1st and December 31st of the year it is issued.

"The fee for a licence to hunt bear in the spring between the 1st day of January and the 15th day of July shall be twenty-five dollars.

"The fee to be paid for a season's license to shoot birds shall be fifty dollars. Such licence to hold good from September 1st until March 31st in the following year: Provided that the Provincial Game Warden may issue a special license to kill game birds to British subjects who are not residents of this Province, for a fee of five dollars a week.

"The fee to be paid for a licence to angle shall be five dollars, such licence to hold good for one year from the date of issue."

 Park Regulations No person shall, without permission from the Minister of the Interior, reside permanently within other portions of the Parks than those sold or leased.

There shall be a reservation for the use of the public of one hundred feet in width along the shore of each lake, river, or stream within the Parks, and any grant, lease or other disposal of lands within the Parks shall be subject to such reservation.

Every person entering or passing into, across or through any of the Parks, shall, when requested to do so by the Superintendent, or any Forest Ranger, Game-guardian or any other officer having charge of or jurisdiction within such Parks, truthfully answer any enquiries made to him by such Superintendent, Ranger, Guardian or officer as to his name, his post office address, the duration or the proposed duration of his stay in the Park and the portion thereof he intends to visit or has visited, and shall give such other information of a similar nature as such Superintendent, Ranger, Guardian or other officer may ask him.

PRESERVATION OF PROPERTY

The defacement of any object at any of the hot springs, of any of the natural rock formations, or of trees, timber, bridges, seats or other structures by cutting, written inscription or otherwise, and the throwing of any stones, sticks or other substances whatsoever into any of the springs or streams in the Parks are strictly forbidden.

No person shall cut, remove, or injure any trees or timber, growing or dead, or remove or displace any mineral deposits or natural curiosities except by written permission of the Superintendent.

FIRES No person shall at any time set out or cause to be set out or started, any fire in the open air within the limits of the Parks, except for the purpose of cooking, obtaining warmth, or for some industrial purpose permitted by the Minister of the Interior to be carried on; and every person who makes or starts a fire in the open air for cooking or camping purposes shall:—

Select a bare rock whereon to kindle such a fire wherever possible, and if there be no bare rock in the neighborhood, then a site on which there is the smallest quantity of vegetable matter, dead wood, branches, brushwood, dry leaves or resinous trees; Clear the place in which he i? about to light the fire by removing all vegetable matter, dead trees, branches, brushwood and dry leaves from the soil within a radius of ten feet from the fire;

Exercise and observe every possible precaution to prevent such fire from spreading, and carefully extinguish the same before quitting the place:

