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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

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20 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO

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amongst the transport bullocks at Zaria, and I am to send, for the information of the Secretary of State, a copy of a letter dated the 24th March last, which has been received from the Secretariat, Zungeru.

The Board are informed by their Veterinary Officers that the specimen of the lung of the ox forwarded showed no lesions of contagious pleuro-pneumonia. A late specimen sent by Captain Bissell, R.A.M.C., from Bauchi, also showed no lesions of contagious pleuro-pneumonia.

SIR,

I am, &c.,

A. W. ANSTRUTHER,

Assistant Secretary.

Enclosure in No. 16.

The Secretariat, Zungeru, 24th March, 1910. WITH reference to your letter, No. A. 10132/1909, of 28th December, 1909, addressed to the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, a copy of which was transmitted by the Secretary of State to this Government, I have now the honour to inform you that I have transmitted direct to you by this mail, under separate cover, two bottles containing a specimen of the lung of an ox that died at Zungeru on the 1st instant, from supposed pleuro-pneumonia.

Short title,

Special .licence

to kill

Elephant.

The Secretary

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I have, &c.,

M. H. D. BERESFORD,

Secretary to the Administration.

to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries,

4, Whitehall Place, London, S.W.

No. 17.

UGANDA.

THE ACTING GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

(No. 230.) MY LORD,

(Received 6 August, 1910.)

[Ordinance sanctioned 11 August, 1910.]

Government House, Uganda, 7th July, 1910.

I HAVE the honour to forward herewith the usual number of authenticated and twelve printed copies of Ordinance No. 7 of 1910, entitled " The Uganda Game (Amendment) Ordinance, 1910," in accordance with Rule No. 186 of the Colonial Regulations.

I have, &c.,

STANLEY C. TOMKINS,

Acting Governor.

Enclosure in No. 17.

AN ORDINANCE enacted by the Acting Governor of the Uganda Protectorate.

Entebbe,

2nd June, 1910.

STANLEY C. TOMKINS,

Acting Governor.

No. 7 of 1910. ELEPHANTS.

It is hereby enacted as follows:-

"

The Uganda Game (Amendment) Ordin- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as ance, 1910," and shall be read as one with the Uganda Game Ordinance, 1906 (herein- after referred to as the principal Ordinance).

2. (a) A Provincial or District Commissioner may on the application of the holder of a Sportsman's or Public Officer's licence grant a special licence authorising such person to hunt, kill or capture either one or two male elephants as the applicant

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shall require and as shall be specified therein. Such special licence shall not authorise the holder to hunt, kill or capture any male elephant having tusks either

of which weighs less than 11 lbs.

(b) There shall be paid for such special licence the fees following:

For a licence to hunt, kill or capture one such elephant Rs. 150/-. For a licence to hunt, kill.or capture two such elephants Rs. 450/-.

(c) Every licence granted under this section shall expire on the same date as the Sportsman's or Public Officer's licence held at the time of the granting of such special licence by the person to whom the same shall be granted and only one such special licence shall be granted to such person during the period of any such Sportsman's or Public Officer's licence. Provided, however, if such person shall have taken out a special licence authorising him to hunt, kill or capture one elephant only, he may on payment of a further fee of Rs. 300/- be granted a licence authorising him to hunt, kill or capture a second elephant.

(d) Any person who, having obtained a licence authorising him to hunt, kill or capture two elephants or who having obtained a licence authorising him to hunt, kill or capture a second elephant shall satisfy a Provincial Commissioner or District Commissioner, by a declaration on oath and in such other manner (if any) as the Provincial Commissioner or District Commissioner may require, that he has killed or captured no elephant or only one elephant under his licence or licences, as the case may be, shall either on the expiration or on the surrender of his licence or licences be entitled to a refund of Rs. 300/-.

(e) The holder of a special licence shall be subject to the provisions of the principal Ordinance.

3. Every person

who shall obtain a special licence to hunt, kill or capture an Original elephant under the preceding section shall produce to the Officer granting the same licence his Sportsman's or Public Officer's licence and such Officer shall endorse thereon the to be fact of such special licence having been granted and the nature of the licence.

endorsed.

4. (a) The Governor may grant to any Native Chief a special licence to hunt, Licences kill or capture two male elephants.

to Native

(b) Such licence shall be subject to the same conditions as the licence mentioned Chiefs. in Section 2 so far as the same are applicable.

(c) The ivory obtained from elephants killed under any such licence shall be taken to the nearest Government station, and there marked in such a way that it may be identified. Any person possessing, buying or selling any such ivory which has not been so marked shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.

(d) The Governor may prescribe by rules the persons by whom and the manner in which such ivory shall be marked.

licences

5. Licences issued under the principal Ordinance unexpired at the commence- Existing ment of this Ordinance shall remain in force for the period for which they were granted as if this Ordinance had not been enacted and the Proclamation dated the not 2nd day of June, 1910, had not been made. Provided always that no person shall hunt, kill or capture any male elephant having tusks either of which is less than 11 lbs.

affected.

6. In Section 2 of the principal Ordinance the definition of " Hunt, kill or Definition. capture" shall be amended by the addition of the words " provided always that only animals which are killed or captured shall be counted on a licence and that any person duly licensed so to do may hunt, kill or capture permitted animals until the number of killed or captured animals shall amount to the number permitted by such licence."

7. Section 18 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby repealed, provided that Repeal. any person now holding such a licence as in the said section is mentioned shall have the privileges conferred by the said section until the expiration of such licence.

8. Section 36 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby repealed.

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No. 18. UGANDA

REPORT ON THE DISEASE WHICH IS AFFECTING THE SESSE CATTLE ON COMING TO THE MAINLAND.

(Received in the Acting Governor's despatch, No. 297, of 5 September, 1910.) Condition of the cattle before crossing.-It seems advisable to first consider the

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Repeal.