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§ 19.
The Governor is authorised, for the purpose of protecting game, to declare certain areas to be game reserves.
All shooting is prohibited in the game reserves.
The Governor is further authorised to prohibit the shooting of individual species of animals in certain districts for a definite or indefinite period.
§ 14.
On some kinds of animals becoming too plentiful in the game reserves, the Governor is authorised to permit individual persons, under conditions to be fixed purpose of for each case, to capture or kill a certain number of these animals for the decreasing the stock of game.
§ 15.
No shooting licence is required for killing down game that has crossed over on to land that is under cultivation or is otherwise in use, if the object is to prevent damage. Not only the person possessing the right to use the land, but also the persons employed by him to do so, are authorised to shoot animals in this manner.
The competent local administrative authority is to be informed immediately of the killing of animals in this manner, and it may demand that the spoils (tusks, horns, skins, feathers, &c.), be given up.
This provision also applies if the land under cultivation or otherwise in use is situated within a game reserve or an area reserved for the professional capture of animals in accordance with § 2, paragraph 2.
§ 16.
It is forbidden to shoot on land under cultivation or otherwise in use or in places clearly marked as private property, against the will of the person possessing the right to use the land.
It is forbidden to shoot on completely enclosed land without the permission of the person who has the right to use it. A piece of land is regarded as being com- pletely enclosed if a change of game is thereby prevented.
§ 17.
It is forbidden to lay poison for the purpose of killing animals of Classes I. to III., and it is also forbidden to fish by means of poison and explosives.
The permission of the competent district authority is required for the capture of game by means of nets, snares, and pits.
§ 18.
In cases of famine or for the prevention of considerable damage by game, the persons affected may be permitted by the local authority to shoot animals of Classes I., II, and III. (§ 3) for a certain period without a licence.
§ 19.
The Governor retains the right to issue regulations that may have become necessary respecting close seasons for individual kinds of game.
It is prohibited to shoot in the close seasons.
§ 20.
Rewards may be paid, in accordance with detailed regulations of the Governor, for killing harmful animals and for collecting the eggs of harmful reptiles.
§ 21.
Infringements of the provisions contained in this Order are punished with imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months or with a fine up to 450 rupees, in so far as a different penalty is not laid down in the following regulations. Imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months or a fine up to 5,000
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rupees, either separately or together, are imposed on any person who, without autho- risation,
Shoots the animals named in § 2 or in § 3, Classes II, and III.; Shoots in the game reserves fixed by the Central Administration for the
purpose of protecting game.
Any person who does not carry his licence or permit (§ 5a, No. 4) with him when shooting, or who refuses to show it to the controlling authority on demand, is liable to a fine not exceeding 100 rupees or to imprisonment.
In the case of natives and coloured persons of the same legal status as natives, the penalties admissible in accordance with the decree of the Imperial Chancellor of April 22, 1896, may be applied.
In addition to the penalty imposed, the hunting requisites, the illegal spoils, and the snares, nets, traps, and other appliances used may be confiscated, whether they belong to the condemned person or not.
§ 22.
January 1, 1909.
The Order The above regulations come into force on
January 1, 1912. for the protection of game, the Circular Decree respecting the introduction of that Order, and the Notice attached to it, all of June 1, 1903, the Circular Decree respecting the protection of property against wild animals of November 15, 1903, the Notice respecting the allowance of shooting money on the export duty for horns of June 3, 1904, the Order respecting shooting money for hippopotami or September 23, 1904, and the Notice respecting changes in § 14 of the Order respect- ng the protection of game of July 15, 1905, the Order and the Circular Decree of July 24, 1902, and the Notice of September 24, 1904, respecting the export of tusks of inferior weight, lapse on the same day.
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No. 58. NYASALAND.
SIR W. H. MANNING to SIR G. FIDDES (COLONIAL OFFICE). (Received May 13, 1912.)
(Unofficial.)
MY DEAR FIDDES,
[Answered by No. 62.]
Government House, Zomba, Nyasaland Protectorate,
2nd April, 1912. I HAVE decided to send you an unofficial communication in the first instance, in connection with a scheme which has been proposed by Major Pearce in connec- tion with the sleeping sickness outbreak here and its dependence upon tsetse fly.
As you know, during the past year I undertook an experiment on a small scale for testing the point as to whether the presence of game was entirely connected with the prevalence of tsetse fly. Though a good deal of very useful work was done, the experiment was not sufficiently extensive nor was it carried on for a sufficiently long time to prove any theory satisfactorily.
Major Pearce has put forward the idea, and it is one in which I concur, that an experiment on a large scale will be the only possible way of deciding this vexed question. It is proposed that an area shall be selected in a district where game is thick and where also the fly is dense, and that this area, say about 100 square miles, shall be fenced in. The fencing shall be of a permanent character, with strong iron standards from 7 to 8 feet high to prevent the game jumping it, and with barbed wire strands. Having fenced in this area and thereby enclosed the game, a number of trained observers will be placed in the area, the game accurately counted as far as possible and the presence of fly very carefully observed. These operations would take some time and when carefully collected statistics have been made the procedure would be that [as] proposed in the earlier experiment, namely, to shoot off the game, to destroy it absolutely, and then again take a series of observations to note as to whether the removal of the game had in any way affected the prevalence of tsetse fly. The undertaking is a very big one and would require a very large sum of money, and this is the reason why I have not put forward the matter officially. Of course, it is quite impossible for this Protectorate to supply the amount which would be Our liabilities are too great required for the experiment or even a portion of it. at present, and I could not recommend that we should do anything whatever. It,
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