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Guide to the Selkirk Mountains.

Any peraon who throws or drops any burning match, ashes from a pipe, lighted cigar or any other burning substance within the Parks shall completely extinguish before leaving the spot the fire of such match, ashes from a pipe, cigar or other burning substance.

Any person who shall directly or indirectly, personally or through any servant, employee or agent, kindle a fire or let it run at large on any land not his own property; permit any fire to pass from his own land, or allow any fire under his charge, custody or control, or under the charge, custody or control of any servant, employee or agent, to run at large, with the result that such fire shall pass into any of the Parks, shall be liable, in addition to any penalty imposed by the Provincial Act, to the penalty imposed for any breach of these Regulations.

PREVENTION OF NUISANCES

Any person camping within the Parks shall carefully clear up the ground on which his camp was located before his departure therefrom, and shall restore it as nearly as possible to its natural condition.

All refuse shall be destroyed or buried.

MINING

The Minister of the Interior may issue licences of occupation for the working of mines and the development of mining interests within the limits of the Parks, subject, however, to the approval by the Governor in Council as to the terms, conditions and duration of such licences of occupation.

LICENCES

Annual licences may be issued by the Superintendent to guides, and no person shall be permitted to act in any such capacity within the Parks without such a licence in good standing. No licence to act as a guide shall be granted to any person under eighteen years of age. Each such licence shall expire on the thirty-first day of March next after the date of its issue. The fee to be charged for such licence shall be five dollars.

No guide shall be entitled to charge for his services more than fifty cents per hour.

The Minister of the Interior may issue a licence good for one year from 1st May in each year to any person or persons undertaking to place on any waters within the Parks a steam yacht or other vessel or vessels suitable for the conveyance of passengers, upon such person or persons paying the fee fixed by the Minister therefor and in all respects complying with the .Steamboat, Inspection Act or Acts regulating steam and other vessels. The maximum fare which may be charged for the conveyance of passengers in such boats shall not exceed, when running on regular trips, up to eight miles, fifty cents; above eight and up to twelve miles, seventy-five cents; over twelve miles, one dollar.

LIVERY STABLES

Every person who keeps a livery stable or provides outfits for parties travelling through any of the Parks shall keep a record of the parties outfitted by him, the number of persons, their names and addresses, the guides accompanying them, the date of departure, their destination and route of travel, the time they propose to remain in such Park, and the firearms carried by the party. Such record shall be open at any time to inspection by the Superintendent, Ranger, Guardian or other officer having jurisdiction in the Parks.

PROTECTION OF GAME

No person shall hunt, take, kill, wound, injure or destroy, or pursue with such intent, any wild animal or bird within the Parks.

No person shall fish for, take, catch or kill, from or in any of the waters of the Parks any fish that inhabit such waters, or attempt so to do, with any kind of net, seine or snare, rack, trap or weir, or night line, or set line, or in any other way than by hook and line.

No person shall use dynamite or any other explosive, or any poison, for the purpose of killing, destroying, injuring, or taking fish in or from the said waters.

Fishing for the purpose, or with the object of selling, bartering or trafficking in the fish so taken is hereby prohibited.

No person shall, in or from the waters of the Parks, kill or retain or carry away any fish less than six inches in length, and when any fish of a length less than six