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Ironiquement, l’acte prot\u00e9geant le quagga a \u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9, le 6 juillet 1886 <\/strong>soit deux ans, dix mois et vingt-quatre jours<\/strong> apr\u00e8s que le quagga ait \u00e9t\u00e9 officiellement d\u00e9clar\u00e9 \u00e9teint<\/strong> en captivit\u00e9 (soit le 12 aout 1883<\/strong> au zoo Artis<\/a> d’Amsterdam)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voici le texte de l’acte publi\u00e9 en Afrique du Sud par le Gouverneur de la province du Cap de Bonne Esp\u00e9rance<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Act\u00a0For\u00a0\u00a0the Better Preservation of Game – No 36 1886 \u2013 Promulgated 6th<\/sup>\u00a0July 1886- Governor of the Cape of Good Hope
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Source\u00a0From\u00a0African Wildlife<\/em>, 1983, volume 37, No 4, p135<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas it is expedient to consolidate and amend the laws relating to game: Be it before enacted by the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly thereof: –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following Game Law proclamations are hereby repealed: that is to say, the proclamation dated 21st<\/sup> March, 1822, entitled \u201cGame Law Proclamation;\u201d, the Proclamation dated 23rd<\/sup> August, 1822, entitled \u201cAmendment of Game Law \u2013 Elephants;\u201d and the proclamation dated 4th<\/sup> March, 1823, entitled \u201c Amendment of Game Law \u2013 Elands.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The word \u201cgame\u201d shall for the purposes of this Act, be taken and understood to mean and comprehend the several birds and animals of this Colony following, not being domesticated, commonly known as Xaauw, korhaan, guinea-fowl, pheasant, partridge, grouse, and dikkop, elephant, camelopard, seacow (hippopotamus), buffalo, zebra, quagga, Burchell zebra, buck (comprehending the whole antelope species, with the exception of springbucks actually migrating but including the gnu or wildebeest), hare and rabbit (not being coneys);..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No person, shall, save as is hereinafter provided, kill, catch, capture, pursue, hunt or shoot at, sell, hawk, or expose for sale, game in any part of this Colony, without having previously obtained a game licence\u2026 No person, however, shall be at liberty to pursue, shoot, kill, destroy, or capture any elephant, hippopotamus, buffalo, eland, koodoo, hartebeest, bontebok, blesbok, gemsbok, rietbok, zebra, quagga, Burchell zebra or any gnu or wildebeest of either variety, without having obtained a special permission to that effect from the Governor, under a penalty of not exceeding ten pounds sterling for each offence, or, on failure of payment thereof, not exceeding one month\u2019s imprisonment with or without hard labour:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: The text above is a faithful transcript of sections 1, 2 and 4 of the Game Law Amendment Act of 1886, enacted by the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. There are 17 sections in this Act, which was published only in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ironiquement, l’acte prot\u00e9geant le quagga a \u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9, le 6 juillet 1886 soit deux ans, dix mois et vingt-quatre jours apr\u00e8s que le quagga ait \u00e9t\u00e9 officiellement d\u00e9clar\u00e9 \u00e9teint en captivit\u00e9 (soit le 12 aout 1883 au zoo Artis d’Amsterdam) Voici le texte de l’acte publi\u00e9 en Afrique du Sud par le Gouverneur de la […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-197","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quagga.re\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quagga.re\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quagga.re\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quagga.re\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quagga.re\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/quagga.re\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/quagga.re\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/197\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quagga.re\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}