the same as aforesaid then it shall be lawful for the person having made such demand to require the person so acting forthwith to declare to him his christian and surname and place of residence and the place at which he shall have taken out such license and if such person shall after such demand made wilfully refuse to produce and show a license to kill game issued to him or in default thereof to give to the person so demanding the same his christian and surname and place of residence and the place at which he shall have taken out such license or if he shall produce any false or fictitious license or give any false or fictitious name or place or if he shall refuse to permit any license which he may produce to be read or a copy thereof or of any part thereof to be taken he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty pounds and not less than five pounds.

Applications of fees and fines.

X. All fees for licenses fines and penalties arising and which may be received and recovered by virtue of the provisions of this Act shall be applied in the first instance in or towards defraying the salaries and expenses of the Ranger or Rangers to be appointed as aforesaid and subject thereto the balance if any shall be handed to the Treasurer of the Acclimatisation Society if any in the Province in which such fees or fines shall have been paid or recovered for the purposes of such Society and if there shall be no such Society shall be carried to the credit of the revenue of such Province.

Coming into force of Act.

XI. This Act shall not come into force in any Province until proclaimed by the Governor in the New Zealand Gazette and in the Gazette of the Province in which it shall be designed that it shall be brought into force and only from a date to be fixed therein.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

LICENSE TO KILL GAME

[Name in full] of [residence and description of person licensed] having this day paid the sum of £5 (five pounds) pursuant to “The Protection of Certain Animals Act 1866” is hereby licensed to kill game within the Province of ................. during the year from the ................. day of 186 ................. to the ................. day of 186 ................. both days inclusive.

Dated at ................. this ................. day of ................. 186 .................

Signed .................

SECOND SCHEDULE.

LICENSE TO SELL GAME

[Name in full] of [residence and description of person licensed] having this day paid the sum of £5 (five pounds) pursuant to “The Protection of Certain Animals Act 1866” is hereby licensed to sell game within the Province of ................. during the year ending the ................. day of 186 .................

Dated at ................. this ................. day of ................. A.D. 186 .................

Signed .................

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PROTECTION OF CERTAIN ANIMALS IN NEW ZEALAND.

30th October 1865.

Preamble.

WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the protection of certain Animals and Birds within New Zealand and the increase arising therefrom and to encourage the importation into the Colony of certain Animals and Birds:

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows—

Short Title.

I. The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Protection of Certain Animals Act 1865.”

Deer hares and certain birds not to be Got taken or killed for a certain time.

II. No deer of any kind hare swan wild goose or wild duck of any imported species whatsoever partridge English plover rook starling thrush or blackbird shall be hunted shot taken or killed at any time whatever before the first day of May which shall be in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy and after that day only during the months of May June July and August in any year.

Provided always that it shall be lawful for the Governor by Order in Council published in the New Zealand Gazette to declare as to any part or parts of the Colony that the whole or any of the animals or birds specified in this section or any other animals or birds which may be hereafter proclaimed as under the protection of this Act may be hunted shot taken or killed during the months of May June July and August in each year.