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No. 249.

SOUTH AFRICA.

HIGH COMMISSIONER THE EARL OF SELBORNE to THE EARL OF CREWF.

(Received 21 December, 1908.)

[Copy to Foreign Office, 1 January, 1909. L.F.]

High Commissioner's Office,

(No. 926.)

MY LORD,

Johannesburg, 30 November, 1908. WITH reference to my despatch, No. 568, of July 20,* I have the honour to enclose, for your information, a copy of the undermentioned documents on the subject of the Convention for the preservation of wild animals and birds in South

Africa.

2. Copies of Enclosures Nos. 9 and 10 to this despatch have been forwarded to the Governments of the self-governing Colonies and of Southern Rhodesia.

I have, &c.,

SELBORNE,

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It was, however, agreed by the British Colonial Governments that the legisla- tion to be enacted by the Parliaments of the Maritime Colonies should not come into operation until such time as similar legal provision should have been made in the territory administered by Your Excellency as well as in the

(1) Portuguese Province of Moçambique and German South-West Africa. (2) Portuguese territories of Moçambique and Manica and Sofala.

I have, therefore, the honour to request that Your Excellency will be so good

as to inform me whether it is intended to introduce in

(1) the Province of Manica and Sofala,

(2) German South-West Africa,

legislation of the nature contemplated by the London Convention to which reference has been made, and, if so, to ask whether I may be informed of the terms of the law when passed and the date on which it will come into operation.

(1) His Excellency

High Commissioner.

(2) His Excellency

SCHEDULE OF ENCLOSURES.

Despatch, No. 299, from Governor, Cape, September 14th, 1908. (2.) Despatch, No. 221, from Governor, Natal, September 17th, 1908.

Letter, No. 28/21, to Secretary-General of Mozambique, September 22nd.

1908.

(1.)

(3.)

(4.)

Despatch, No. 28/79, to Governor, Cape, September 24th, 1908.

(5.) Despatch, No. 333, from Governor, Cape, October 19th, 1908.

(6.)

(7.)

(8.)

Despatch, No. 335, from Governor, Cape, 19th October, 1908. Letter, No. 28/21, to Secretary-General, Mozambique, October 29th, 1908. Despatch, No. 31/61, to Governor, Portuguese West Africa, October 31st,

1908.

Conselheiro A. C. Ferreira Pinto Basto,

Governor of Manica and Sofala, Beira.

The Governor of German South-West Africa, Windhuk.

No. 11 of 1908.]

I have, &c.,

SELBORNE,

High Commissioner.

[Promulgated 11th August, 1908.

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(9.) Despatch, No. 31/60, to Governors of Manica and Sofala and of German

South-West Africa, November 17th, 1908.

(10.) Letter from the Secretary-General of Mozambique (with translation),

November 13th, 1908.

(No. 31/60.)

YOUR EXCELLENCY,

Enclosure 9 in No. 249.

High Commissioner's Office,

Johannesburg, November 17th, 1908.

I HAVE the honour to inform Your Excellency that the Governments of the British South African Colonies have recently had under their consideration the question of the adoption of legislative measures with a view to the preservation of wild birds and animals within their respective territories.

In considering this question the Colonial Government have had before them the provisions of Article II. of the Convention for the preservation of wild birds, fish, and animals, which was signed at London on May 19th, 1900, with the terms of which Your Excellency is no doubt familiar, and, with a view to arriving at some agreement in regard to the action to be taken in the British Colonies, the matter was recently discussed at a Conference at which representatives of the British Colonial Governments were present, when it was resolved that the British Maritime Colonies should introduce into their Parliaments legislation to give effect to the provisions of the London Convention.

I now beg to enclose for Your Excellency's perusal a copy of a Law which has been enacted by the Parliament of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, amending the Game Laws of that Colony, and to invite Your Excellency's special attention to the provisions of Clauses 3 and 4, which have been introduced as the result of the resolution passed at the Conference to which I have referred.

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Translation only printed.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

ACT to Amend the Game Laws. [Assented to 10th August, 1908.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, with the advice and consent Preamble.

of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly thereof, as follows:

Interpre- tation

1. In this Act the following terms shall bear the following meanings :

"Royal Game" shall mean the following animals, viz. :-elephant, rhino- clanse. ceros, hippopotamus, giraffe or camelopard, buffalo, eland, koodoo, harte- beest, bontebok, blesbok, gemsbok, rietbok, klipspringer, zebra, quagga, Burchell zebra or any gnu or wildebeest of either variety.

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Game" shall include "Royal Game as above defined and the other birds and animals included or which may be included in that term by or under sections two and eleven of the Game Law Amendment Act 1886.

"Local Authority" shall include Divisional Council, Municipal Council, and

Village Management Board.

2. No person, save as hereinafter provided, shall hunt any game in any part of Game this Colony without having previously obtained a game licence, in respect of which licence and royal game shall licence. the fee for the time being prescribed by law has been duly paid, and no person hunt royal game without having previously obtained a special permit from the Governor, and, save as hereinafter provided, also a licence to be known as a royal game licence, in respect of which the sum of three pounds shall be payable by persons domiciled in, and twenty-five pounds by persons domiciled outside this Colony, or such other fee as may from time to time be prescribed by law, and for the issue of such permits and licences the Governor may make regulations to be published in the Gazette"; provided that a landowner or his children shall not require either licence hereinhefore referred to for the purpose of shooting game on the land of such landowner. Any person contravening the provisions of this section shall, on convic- tion, be liable in regard to game other than royal game, to a fine not exceeding five pounds, or in default of payment thereof, to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a period not exceeding one month, and in the case of royal game, for the first offence, to a fine not exceeding twenty-five pounds or, in default of payment thereof, imprisonment with or without hard labour for a period not exceeding three

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