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particular fly and one particular parasite, and presumably, therefore, against others. The experiment could then be repeated wherever else it might be considered necessary, with a reasonable amount of confidence as to its results being beneficial.
In making the above suggestion, an "experimentum in corpore vili," no doubt I must put on record that I do not mean it literally as such (I hope I should be the last person to insinuate the fitness of the tag's epithet for Gambia), but merely put forward little Gambia as more suited to run the risk of harm than the larger Pro- tectorates of East Africa, as here, if the hoped for results did not materialise, but an infinitesimal portion of the African fauna would have suffered, instead of an irre- placeable and much larger proportion, which would be lost elsewhere in larger
countries.
The above remarks apply to the Protectorate as a whole, though naturally there. In Baddibu, owing to the are places where animals are commoner than elsewhere. closer population and small amount of bush left, and in Fogni, owing to the greater hunting capabilities of the Jolas, the larger animals are extremely rare or non- existent, but elsewhere they are about as common (or uncommon, as the case may be) all over the Protectorate where the same conditions prevail.
The Honourable
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Colonial Secretary,
Bathurst.
(No. 291.) SIR,
I have, &c.,
E. HOPKINSON,
Travelling Commissioner,
South Bank Province.
No. 34.
UGANDA.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR.
Downing Street, 18 June, 1913.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of despatch, No. 191, of the 29th of April,* and to inform you that the power of disallowance will not be exercised with respect to Ordinance No. 7 of 1913, of the Uganda Protectorate, entitled "The Game Ordinance, 1913."
2. I approve of your action as reported in paragraph 2 of your despatch.
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I have, &c..
L. HARCOURT.
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Enclosure 1 in No. 35.
No. VI, of 1913.
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE GAME Ordinance, 1909.
[May 26th, 1913.]
Be it enacted by the Governor of the East Africa Protectorate with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof :—
1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Game Amendment Ordinance, 1913," Short title. and shall be read as one with the Game Ordinance, 1909, hereinafter referred to as the Principal Ordinance.
2. In this Ordinance the term "lion" shall mean a male or female lion and Interpre
tation. shall include the young of lion.
Schedule 3.
Kind.
3. The Third Schedule to the Principal Ordinance shall be and is hereby Amend- amended by the addition thereto of the words and figures following :-
Number allowed.
ment of
49. Lion
50. Cheetah
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4. Save as hereinafter provided, no person shall use any poison, trap or set gun for the purpose of killing or capturing lion or cheetah,
No poison trap or set
gun to be
used for the killing or
be capturing
of lion or
5. Nothing in this Ordinance or in the Principal Ordinance contained shall deemed to prohibit the hunting, killing or capturing by any means whatsoever and cheetah. without a licence under the Principal Ordinance of lion or cheetah
Saving
(a) on private land,
as to the killing of
(b) on land, not being land within a Game Reserve, within 20 miles of any lion on private land (other than private land situate within a Native Reserve), or near private (c) on land, not being land within a Game Reserve, within 5 miles of any land.
private land situate within a Native Reserve, or within 5 miles of any Railway.
Passed in the Legislative Council the 31st day of March, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.
This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct printed copy of the said Bill.
T. S. THOMAS,
Clerk of the Legislative Council.
Presented for authentication and assent as a correctly and faithfully printed copy of the Bill as passed by the Legislative Council.
C. C. BOWRING,
Chief Secretary.
R. M. COMBE,
Attorney-General.
Assented to in His Majesty's name this 26th day of May, 1913. HENRY CONWay Belfield,
Governor.
No. 35.
EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(No. 402.)
(Received 24 June, 1913.)
[Answered by Nos. 39 and 49.]
Government House, Nairobi, British East Africa,
May 27th, 1913.
SIR,
I HAVE the honour to transmit herewith two authenticated and ten printed copies of the Game Amendment Ordinance, 1913, as passed by the Legislative Council on the 31st of March, together with a memorandum by the Attorney-General.
2. I have assented to the Ordinance in the name of His Majesty.
I have, &c.,
H. CONWAY BELFIELD,
Governor.
Enclosure 2 in No. 35.
LEGAL REPORT on the Game Amendment Ordinance, 1913.
1. As lion and cheetah are not mentioned in any of the Schedules to the Game Ordinance, 1909, there is at present no restriction on the slaughter of or the method of slaughtering these animals wherever found.
2. It is considered that, provided that lion and cheetah are not protected within or near settled areas, the indiscriminate slaughter, and ultimate extinction, of these valuable game animals should, if possible, be prevented.
3. The purpose of this Ordinance is to bring lion and cheetah within the Game Ordinance in order that outside the settled areas they may be protected to the same extent as animals mentioned in the 3rd Schedule to the Game Ordinance, 1909.
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