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5. Five rupees for animals of Class I. (§ 3) if the shooting is carried out on a particular day within five successive days from the day on which the licence is issued (day shooting licence).
Persons not domiciled in the Protectorate must pay for the small shooting licence an increased fee of 200 rupees, for the large shooting licence an increased fee of 750 rupees.
Further, each shooting licence made out for persons who have no permanent address in the Protectorate may be made dependent on the deposit of a security with the authorities of an amount not exceeding 1,000 rupees.
The Governor may permit a certain number of animals of Classes I. to III. to be killed for scientific purposes, without a shooting licence.
§ 5.
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The shooting licence is issued in the person's name, and is not transferable. is valid, except in the case of the day shooting licence, for one year from the date of issue.
A shooting licence can only be renewed after the expiry of its validity. The native, district, and day shooting licences (§ 4, Nos. 1, 2, and 5) are issued by the district authorities; shooting licences coming under Nos. 3 and 4 of § 4 are issued only by the Central Administration or by the district authorities authorized by it.
The district shooting licence (§ 4, No. 2), is only granted to residents of the district, the day shooting licence, the issue of which depends on the free judgment of the district authorities, is granted only for the five days following the day on which it is issued.
§ 5a.
The shooting of elephants (Class III.) and the killing or capture of these animals" is only permitted in virtue of a special permit, which is only granted to holders of large shooting licences (§ 4, 16 and 4), and for which must be paid in advance :-
150 rupees for the first elephant.
400 rupees for the second elephant.
A permit to shoot more than two elephants is not granted by the Central Administration; the Imperial Chancellor (Imperial Colonial Office), however, retains the right to make exceptions to this in certain cases.
The fees are in no case refunded.
A special certificate (permit) is issued by the local administrative authority respecting the permission granted to shoot or capture elephants; the hunter must always carry this permit with him when engaged in shooting or capturing, and must show it on demand to the officials charged with controlling the shooting.
The permit lapses on the expiry of the large shooting licence under which it is issued. It is then to be returned, filled up, to the administrative authority which issued it.
In other respects the same provisions apply to the issue and withdrawal of the permit as for the large shooting licence.
§ 56.
The hunter or catcher must immediately inform the competent administrative authority (district office, military station, residency, auxiliary district office, military and police station) of the killing or capture of each elephant.
§ ặc.
Persons having the right to shoot may only kill a certain number of the follow- ing kinds of animals in virtue of the possession of a licence, viz. :—
(1) Rhinoceros (Nashorn), giraffe, buffalo, eland; not more than two of each
kind;
(2) Zebra, koodoo (grosse Schraubenantilope), oryx (Spiessbock), “ giraffen-
gazelle," colobin, marabou; not more than four of each kind.
In special cases the Governor may permit persons who have their permanent domicile in the Protectorate, to shoot a greater number of these kinds of animals, and he may also make changes in the above list by means of a public notice.
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§ 6.
The holder of a licence (Jäger) must carry the licence with him when shooting, and must show it on demand to the controlling official.
The control is in the hands of the administrative authorities and their repre- sentatives within their district.
Persons who have lost their shooting licence pay a quarter of the fee for a duplicate, but at most three rupees.
§ 7.
A shooting licence may be refused if the person applying for it has within the previous five years been punished for an offence against property, against the shoot- ing regulations or the Order of March 7, 1906, respecting public traffic in the German East African Protectorate (Landesgesetzgebung Nachtrag IV., No. 29), or if public security appears to be thereby threatened.
The large shooting licence may be refused if so many large shooting licences have been already issued that the stock of game would be threatened by an increase in the number of persons authorised to shoot.
The shooting licence may be withdrawn by order of the competent authority, if the person possessing it
(a) misuses it;
(b) is condemned for an offence against the shooting regulations or the Order of March 7, 1906, respecting public traffic in the German East African Protectorate.
The withdrawal of the shooting licence may also take place if the shooting carried out by the holder of a licence must, by its manner and extent, endanger the supply of game. A shooting licence may also be refused if the person applying for it is under the grave suspicion of being guilty of deliberately infringing the shooting regulations or of shooting in such a manner as to endanger the supply of game.
An appeal may be made to the Governor against the Order by which a shooting licence is refused or withdrawn within three months from the date of the issue of such an Order.
§ 8.
It is forbidden to hunt or kill elephant calves and female elephants accompanied by calves.
$ 9.
The appropriation of unclaimed ivory is reserved to the Treasury of the Pro- tectorate. A recompense of 25 per cent. of the market value at the place of finding is granted to the person delivering up the ivory.
§ 10.
Unwrought elephant tusks of a less weight than 15 kg. are subject to confisca- tion. Broken tusks are excepted which, if intact, would weigh at least 15 kg.
Tusks weighing less than 15 kg. and more than 5 kg. are not subject to confisca- tion if it is proved by July 1st, 1912, that they were acquired before these regulations came into force. Such tusks may only be placed on the market after having been stamped by the competent authority.
§ 11.
The capture of animals is considered equivalent to shooting them with breech- loading rifles.
§ 12.
Any person desirous of catching alive animals belonging to Class II. or Class III. for the purpose of taming them, breeding or exportation, must have a special permission in addition to the shooting licence.
The Governor is authorised to assign certain areas to individual persons for a certain time with the sole permission to capture animals, under conditions to be agreed on for each case and on payment of special dues.
In the areas thus assigned no shooting may be carried on against the will of the person possessing the permission to capture animals.
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