Glass—SJlAOJi Book Aa MAINE INLAND FISH AND GAME LAWS 1917-18 REVISION INLAND FISH AND GAME LAWS State of fIDaine LAWS FOR 1917-1918 (Subject to change by rules and regulations of Com- missioners.) This book contains all rules and regulations of the Commissioners adopted up to the time of going to press, June 1, 1917. Compiled by the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and Game. HARRY B. AUSTIN, Chairman. Official P. O. Address, AUGUSTA, MAINE. licL^L^ . U-"' •^^^C./^w^ Wt SENTliNKL PUBLISHING COMPANY WATKRVILLE, MAINE I917 ^^*''' % D. of D. JUL 3 1917 ^^ FISH LAVC'S EXPLA3fATIONS. K -> Unless oUterwiae specified, the aeetiona rrfored to in ^ this book i&eaa seetio&s of Chapter 3S of the Revised Statutes, as amended by Chapter 21& of the Piiblie Laws of iai7. , B. and B. of Commlsslofiers means Boles and Begnla- tlons of the Commissioners which hare the force of law, having been adopted in accordance with law. The Legislature of 1017 revised and consolidated the public inland fish and game laws and under the revised coounds of white perch in one day in Little River or in any of its tribiitaries in Old Orchard, and only for consumption in the family of the person taking the same. (Note. For penalty for violating any provision of the above Rules and Regulations, see section 21, page 30.) 29 DAILY LIMIT. Section 19. During the respective closed seasons on the above named fish no person shall fish for, take, catch or kill or have any of them in possession; provided, further, that no person shall in any one day during the respective open seasons herein provided take or catch and kill or have in possession at any time, more than fifteen pounds in all of landlocked salmon, trout, togue, white perch and black bass, unless one individual fish caught shall weigh more than fifteen pounds, or unless the last fish caught in- creases the combined weight thereof to more than fifteen pounds, and provided, further, that no person in any one day shall take, catch and kill or have in possession at any time more than twenty-five fish in all of landlocked salmon, trout, togue, white perch and black bass even though the tAventy-five fish caught and killed weigh less than fifteen pounds; .... SPECIAL LAW AND LIMIT IN RANGELEY LAKES. (Section 19.) provided, further, that no person or party or occupants of any one boat, canoe, raft or other vessel or conveyance propelled by steam, electricity, hand or other power shall catch by still or plug fishing, so called, more than four trout and landlocked salmon in any one day, collectively, nor more than two trout and landlocked salmon in any one day, individually, in the waters of Richardson, Mooselookmeguntic and Cupsuptic lakes, sit- uated in the counties of Franklin and Oxford ; provided, further, that it shall be unlawful for any person to fish for, take, catch or kill any kind of fish at any time in Rangeley Lake, in the county of Franklin, by still or plug fishing, so called ; . . . . PLUG FISHING FOR TROUT AND LANDLOCKED SALMON PROHIBITED IN SNOW POND (OF BEL- GRADE CHAIN.) (Section 19.) provided, further, that no person shall fish for, take, catch or kill any trout or landlocked salmon at any time in Messalonskee lake, or Snow pond, so called, of the Belgrade Chain of lakes, in the county of Kennebec, by still or plug fishing, so called, .... 30 LENGTH OF PROTECTED FISH WHICH MAY BE TAKEN. SPECIAL LIMIT IN CERTAIN WATERS. (Section 19.) and provided, further, that no landlocked salmon less than twelve inches in length, no trout or white perch less than six inches in length and no black bass less than ten inches in length shall be caught and killed or had in possession by any person at any time, except that in Great, Long, East, North, Ellis, McGraw and Snow ponds, said ponds being part of the Belgrade chain of lakes, in Kennebec and Somerset counties, no trout less than ten inches or black bass less than twelve inches in length shall be caught and killed at any time; and pro- vided, further, no person shall take, catch and kill in any one day more than six black bass in all in either of said ponds or in Lake Kezar or in Lower Kezar pond in Oxford county. (See penalty in Sec. 21, below.) NUMBER OF LINES WHICH MAY BE USED IN FISHING. Section 20. No person shall in any manner, except when fishing through the ice, as now provided by law, fish with more than two lines at any time. (See penalty next section.) PENALTY FOR ILLEGAL FISHING. Section 21. Whoever violates any provision of the three preceding sections (18, 19 and 20) shall pay a fine of not less than ten, nor more than thirty dollars, and costs of prosecution, for each offense; and in addition thereto one dollar for each fish taken, caught, killed or had in posses- sion in violation of any provision of said sections. (Same penalty for violating any of above R. & R. of Commrs.) SALE AND PURCHASE OF CERTAIN FISH PRO- HIBITED. Section 22. Whoever by himself, his clerk, servant, or agent, directly or indirectly, sells or purchases any land- locked salmon, trout, togue, black bass or white perch, shaU pay a fine of not less than ten, nor more than thirty 31 dollars, and costs of prosecution, for each offense, and in addition tliereto one dollar for each fish sold, purchased or had in possession in violation of this section. SALE OF WHITE PERCH TAKEN IN CERTAIN WATERS IN WASHINGTON AND PENOBSCOT COUNTIES PERMITTED. Provided, however, that white perch legally taken in Grand Lake, Junior Lake, Compass Lake and Dobsis Lake, in the counties, of Washington and Penobscot, and all other lakes and ponds whose outlets empty into any of the above named lakes, may be sold and transported, within or without this state, under such rules and regulations as the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and Game may establish. PROHIBITED DEVICES IN FISHING. Section 24. Whoever fishes for, takes, catches, kills or destroys any fish, with fish spawn, or grapnel, spear, trawl, weir, gaff, seine, trap, (or set lines, except when fishing through the ice, and then with not more than five set lines to a family in the day time) or shall use any dynamite or other explosive or poisonous or stupefying substance for the purpose of destroying or taking fish, or takes any kind of fish, except suckers, eels, hornpouts and yellow perch, as hereinafter provided, with any device or in any other way than by the ordinary mode of angling with single- baited hook and line, artificial flies, artificial minnows, artificial insects, spoon-hooks and spinners, so called, shall pay a fine of not less than ten, nor more than thirty- dollars, and costs of prosecution, for each offense; and in addition thereto one dollar for each fish taken, caught, killed or had in possession in violation of any provis:ion of this section; and when prohibited implements or devices are found in use or possession they are forfeit and con- traband and any person finding them in use may destroy them. POSSESSION OF JACKLIGHT, (OR I.IGHT FITTED FOR HUNTING GAME AT NIGHT,) SPEAR, TRAWI., OR NET IliLEGAL. Section 25. No person shall have in possession at any time when he is upon the wild lands, waters or highways, 32 or in the woods or fields of the state, or in any camp, lodge, or place of resort for hunters or fishermen, or in its immediate vicinity, any jacklight or light fitted for use in the hunting of game in the night time ; nor shall any person have in possession at any time any spear, trawl or net (except such as are authorized for the taking of suckers, eels, hornpouts and yellow perch, as provided in section twenty-seven of this chapter) other than a dip-net, in any camp, lodge or place of resort for hunters or fisher- men, or in its immediate vicinity, or on any of the lakes, rivers or streams of the state, or in their immediate vicinity, in the inland territory of the state. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be subject to a penalty of not less than ten, nor more than one hundred dollars and costs, for each offense, and when any such implements or devices are found in possession in violation of any' provision of this section they are forfeit and contra- band, and shall be seized by any person authorized to enforce the inland fish and game laws. SMELTS, MINNOWS, BAIT FISH, WHITE FISH, CUSK AND SUCKERS. Section 26. It shall be lawful, however, to take smelts in all the inland waters of the state above tide waters with a dip net in the usual and ordinary way, and to catch them through the ice in the day time with single hook and line at any time in waters open to ice fishing, but they shall not be taken for sale or sold at any time except for bait for fishing in this state ; provided, however, that it shall be lawful to take smelts, with single hook and line, in the day time, in Sebago lake for sale within or without the state, during January, February and March of each year, but they shall not be taken with a dip net in the tributaries to Sebago lake except for consumption as food in the family of the person taking the same; and provided, further, that it shall be unlawful to take smelts at any time in Swan lake, or in any of the tributaries to said lake, in the county of Waldo, in any manner except with single hook and line. Provided, further, that it shall be lawful to take minnows and other fish usually used for bait in fishing, in all the inland waters of the state, and to sell the same for bait for fishing only in this state; and provided, further, that it shall be lawful to catch white fish with single hook and line at any time, in 33 all the inland -waters of the state, but they shall not be taken at night with set lines; and provided, further, that white fish may be taken, by means of nets, during the month of November of each year, for food purposes only in the family of the person taking the same, under rules and regulations of the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and Game, in Millinocket, North Twin, South Twin, Pemadumcook, Jo Mary and Ambejejus lakes, in Penobscot and Piscataquis counties, and in Grand lake and Po- kumkus lake or Compass lake, so called, in Washington county; and provided, further,, that it shall be lawful to catch cusk at any time in waters open to ice fishing with not more than five set lines to each family when fishing through the ice and when under the immediate personal supervision of the person fishing; and provided, further, that it shall be lawful to take suckers with spears, in all the inland waters of the state, during April and May of each year. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall pay a fine of thirty dollars and costs for each offense. TAKING OF EELS, SUCKERS, HORNPOUTS AND YELLOW PERCH. Section 27. The Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and Game may grant permits to take suckers, eels, hornpouts and yellow perch, by means of eel pots, traps, spears or nets, in inland waters frequented by these fish, under such terms, rules and regulations as they may establish, but no exclusive territory permits shall be granted for the taking of any of said fish in the Machias river, in Wash- ington county. It shall be unlawful for any person to take, catch, kill, destroy or have in possession any suckers, eels, hornpouts or yellow perch in violation of any provision of this section, under a penalty of thirty dollars and costs for each offense. TRANSPORTATION OF FISH AND PENALTY FOR ILLEGAL TRANSPORTATION. Section 28. No person shall transport more than fifteen pounds of landlocked salmon, trout, togue, white perch or black bass in all in any one day, nor shall any corporation or common carrier transport more than fifteen pounds in all, of landlocked salmon, trout, togue, white perch or blaq^ 3 34 bass in any one day as the property of one person, but nothing herein contained shall prevent any person, cor- poration or common carrier from transporting one fish weighing more than fifteen pounds ; nor shall any such be transported except in the possession of the owner thereof, plainly labeled with the owner's name and residence, and open to view, except as is provided in the following section. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall pay a fine of not less than ten, nor more than thirty dollars and costs for each offense, and in addition thereto one dollar for every pound of fish being: transported in violation of any provision of this section; and all such fish being so transported in violation of this section shall be seized and shall be forfeited to the state; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall prohibit any person having less than twenty-five fish weighing in all less than fifteen pounds from transporting one additional fish, nor prohibit any transportation company from trans- porting said additional fish under the conditions pre- scribed in this section for the transportation of fish. TRANSPORTATION OF FISH UNDER TAG. Section 29. No landlocked salmon, trout, togue, black bass or white perch shall be carried or transported in any way except in the possession of the owner, accompanied by him, plainly labeled with the owner's name and ad- dress, and open to view, except any person who has law- fully in his possession one landlocked salmon, one trout, one togue, one black bass or one white perch, or ten pounds of any kind of these fish, may transport the same to his home or to any hospital in this state without ac- companying the shipment, by purchasing of the duly con- stituted agent therefor a tag, paying for a landlocked salmon, trout, togue or black bass, one dollar for each, or one dollar for each ten pounds of the same, and fifty cents for one white perch or ten pounds of the same; provided, however, that no person shall, under any of these pro- visions, send more than one box of fish once in five days. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall pay a fine of not less than ten, nor more than thirty dollars and costs, for each offense, an-d in addition thereto one dollar for each pound of fish transported in violation of any provision of this section. 35 INTRODUCTION OF FISH WITHOUT PERMISSION OF COMMISSIONERS PROHIBITED. Section 30. Whoever introduces fish of any kind into any of the waters of the state by means of live fish or otherwise, except upon written permission of the commis- sioners of inland fisheries and game, shall pay a fine of not less than fifty, nor more than five hundred dollars. ADVANCE BAITING PROHIBITED. Section 31. W^hoever deposits any meat, bones, dead fish or parts of the same, or other food for fish, in any of the inland waters of the state, for the puri^ose of luring fish known as "advance baiting," shall pay a fine of not less than ten, nor more than thirty dollars and costs of prosecution, for each offense. FISHING FOR GAIN OR HIRE PROHIBITED. Section 23. Whoever shall, for the whole or any part of the time, engage in the business er occupation of fishing on any of the inland waters of the state above tide-waters, for landlocked salmon, togue, trout, black bass, pickerel, or white perch, for gain or hire, shall for every such offense pay a fine of fifty dollars and costs; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall be construed as prohibiting the sale of pickerel legally taken by the person taking the same. SAWDUST AND OTHER SAW MIIiL WASTE MUST NOT BE THROWN INTO I.AKES OR PONDS OR CERTAIN OTHER WATERS. Section 32. No person or corporation shall place or de- posit in any of the lakes or ponds of the state, or into any of the following named rivers, brooks and streams, to wit, in Aroostook county, the Aroostook river or any of its tributaries above the mouth of Beaver brook, in Sheridan plantation, except sawdust made by gang saws, main rotaries, up and down saws in water mills in use prior to nineteen hundred and three; Fish River and all its tributaries down as far as the foot of Eagle Lake, except Sly brook ; Wallagrass river for a distance of three miles 36 from its mouth ; Little Madawaska river or any of its tributaries ; in Cumberland county, in any of the rivers, brooks or streams lying wholly or in part in the towns of Naples, Casco and Raymond ; Breakneck brook and its tributaries; in any of the tributaries to Highland lake; Mill brook in Westbrook ; in Franklin county, in any of the tributaries to Lake Webb ; in Kennebec county, in any of the tributaries to McGraw, Ellis, East, North, Great, Long, Little and Snow ponds; in Hotter mill stream, in Litchfield ; in any of the tributaries to any of the lakes or ponds lying wholly or partly in the towns of Vienna and Mount Vernon ; in Knox county, in any of the tributaries to Crawford pond in Union and Warren; in Lincoln county, in Jackson mill stream, or in Joe Weeks' mill stream, tributaries to Damariscotta lake; in Oxford county. Bog brook and its tributaries, in Oxford and Hebron (and in Minot and Mechanic Falls in Androscoggin county) ; Swift River and its tributaries, in the counties of Oxford and Franklin; the outlet of Worthley pond in Peru ; in Ellis river and its tributaries ; Cambridge river, in Upton and Grafton; Bear river, in Newry and Grafton; Cold river and its tributaries, in Stowe ; the tributaries to Upper Kezar pond in Lovell; in Penobscot county, the west branch of Mattawamkeag stream and its tributaries ; Kimball brook, Shin brook and Seboeis river, tributaries to East branch of the Penobscot river; Fish stream, a tributary to Mattawamkeag river; Olamon stream; in Pis- cataquis county, Ferguson stream ; the South branch of the Piscataquis river and its tributaries in the town of Kings- bury ; Thorn brook and its tributaries in the towns or Abbott, Kingsbury and Blanchard ; Higgins stream and its tributaries in the counties of Somerset and Piscataquis; in Waldo county, Half Moon or Sandy stream and its tributaries; the tributaries to Seven Tree pond; the tributaries to Unity pond ; St. Georges river, in Montville and Searsmont; Ellis stream, in Waldo, Brooks and Bel- fast; in Washington county, Baskahegan stream, in the town of Danforth ; in York county. Heath brook, in the town of Acton ; Little Ossipee river, within the limits of the towns of Shapleigh, Newfield, Waterboro, Limerick and Limington; Norton and Brown brooks and their tributaries, in Shapleigh and Limerick, or allow the same to be done by anyone in their employ, any slabs, edgings, sawdust, chips, bark, mill waste, shavings or fibrous material cre- ated in the manufacture of lumber, or place or deposit the 37 same on the banks of any of the above-named waters in such negligent or careless manner that the same shall fall or be washed into said waters, or with the intent that the same shall fall or be washed into said waters. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall pay a fine of not less than five dollars and not exceeding: one hundred dollars and costs for each oflfense. DUTIES OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES AND GAME. Section 2. The Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and Game shall have general supervision of the enforcement of the inland fiph and game laws. Whenever they shall deem it for the best interests of the State they may regulate the times and places in which and the circumstances under which wild birds, wild animals and inland fish may be taken for a series of years not exceeding four, upon petition of at least twenty- five per cent of the legal voters of the city, town or plantation in which the waters or lands to be affected are situated, or upon petition of a majority of the municipal officers thereof whenever in the judgment of the commissioners an emergency exists which demands immediate action, and in cases where the lands or waters to be affected are situated in unorganized town- ships, upon petition of at least twenty-five interested citi- zens of this state. Provided, however, that said commis- sioners shall not authorize the taking of wild birds or wild animals or inland fish at a time in which the taking thereof is prohibited by the laws of the state. They may, from time to time, modify or repeal rules and regulations promulgated by them whenever they deem it necessary for the protection and preservation of the wild birds, wild ani- mals and inland fish of the state. They shall file in the offices of the clerks of courts in the counties to be af- fected a copy of the rules and regulations adopted by them, and publish the same three weeks successively in a newspaper printed in the county ; they shall also, im- mediately upon the adoption of any rules and regulations contemplated by this section, file a copy of the same in the office of the secretary of state. They may, when they deem it necessary, post notices on the banks of waters affected by rules and regulations promulgated by virtue of this section. 38 PENALTY FOR HUNTING OB FISHING IN VIOLATION OF RULES AND REGULATIONS OF COMMISSIONERS. Section 3. Whoever fishes for, takes, catches, kills, destroys or has in possession any protected inland fish, or hunts, chases, catches, kills, takes, destroys or has In possession any protected wild birds or wild animals, or part or parts thereof, in any manner at any time, in viola- tion of any of the rules and regulations of the commis- sioners of inland fisheries and game, made and promul- gated in conformity with the provisions of this chapter, shall be punished in the same manner and to the same extent as is provided by law for illegally taking, catch- ing, killing, destroying or having in possessiop such pro- tected inland fish or for illegally hunting, chasing, catching, killing, taking, destroying or having in possession such protected wild birds or wild animals. Whoever fishes for, takes, catches, kills, destroys or has in possession any unprotected inland fish, or hunts, chases, catches, kills, destroys or has in possession any unpro- tected wild birds or wild animals, or part or parts thereof, In any manner at any time, in violation of any of the rules and regulations of the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, made and promulgated in conformity with the provisions of this chapter, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten, nor more than fifty dollars and costs, for each offense. Section 4. Whoever wilfully mutilates, defaces or destroys any notice, rule or regulation of the commission- ers of inland fisheries and game, posted in conformity with the provisions of this chapter, shall pay a fine not exceeding fifty dollars. COMMISSIONERS MAY GRANT PERMITS TO TAKE AND TRANSPORT FISH, WILD BIRDS AND WILD ANIMALS FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES. Section 5. The commissioners of inland fisheries and game may take fish, game birds and wild animals of any kind when, Avhere, and in such manner as they choose, for the purpose of science and of cultivation and dissemination, and they may grant written permits to other persons to tak.e fish, grane birds and wild animals for the same purposes, and may introduce or permit to be introduced, any kind of fish into any waters. They may, after a 39 hearing, set apart, for a term not exceeding ten j^e.irs, any waters for the use of the state or of the United cJtates commissioner of fish and fisheries, in the prosecu- tion of the worli of fish culture and of scientific research, relative to fishes. The order setting apart such waters shall be recorded in the registry of deeds in the county or registry district, in which they are situated. In the waters so set ai)art, they and the United States commissioner of fish and fisheries, and persons acting under their authority may, in their respective fish culture and scientific work, take fish at any time or in any maner, and erect and maintain any fixtures necessary for such purposes. No other person shall take or kill any fish, or use any imple- ment for fishing: therein, under a penalty of not less than ten, nor more than one hundred dollars, and a further penalty of one dollar for each fish so taken or killed; provi'ded, liowever, that before such hearing the com- missioners shall give notice thereof, by publication for two successive weeks in at least one newspaper printed in the county where such waters lie. They may grant permission to take wild animals and game birds for park purposes in this state, under such rules, regulations, and conditions as they shall establish. They may cause the destruction of any mink or othef destructive animal or bird found in or around any fish hatchery or feeding station in this state. They mar grant permits to transport in and beyond the limits of the state, live fish, wild animals or game birds taken in the state for breeding or advertising purposes. • GAME AND FUR FARMING. (Section 5.) They may issue permits to any person, firm or cor- poration to engage in the business of propagating game birds, game or fur-bearing animals, under such regulations as they shall establish. They may issue to any person, firm or corporation permit to fence in or enclose land not exceeding twenty-five acres in area for the above named purpose. When it appears that such application is made in good faith, and upon the payment of an annual fee of two dollars, said commission- ers may issue to the applicant a breeder's license per- mitting the breeding and rearing of any species of game birds, gahie or fur-bearing animals within such enclosure. 40 Such licensed breeders may at any time sell, transport or kill and sell, and any person, firm or corporation may purchase, have in possession or transport, any game birds, game or fur-bearing animals raised by virtue of the pro- visions of this section, under such regulations as said com- missioners may establish. FISHWAYS. Section 6. They may compel the owner or occupant of every dam or other artificial obstruction above tuie-water in any river or stream frequented by salmon, landlocked salmon, shad, alewives or other migratory fishes, to pro- vide the same with a durable and efllcient fishway, of sucn form and capacity, and in such location as may, after notice in writing to one or more of said owners or occu- pants and a hearing thereon, be determined by the com- missioners ; they shall give written notice to some owner or occupant specifying the location, form and capacity of the required fishway, and the time within which it shall tie built; and said owner or occupant shall keep said fishway in repair, and open and free from obstruction for the passage of fish, during such times as are prescnoed by law; provided, however, that in case of disagreement between said commissioners and the owner or occupant of any dam, as to the propriety and safety of the pl;in sub- mitted to the owner or occupant of such dam for the location and construction of the fishway, such owner or occupant may appeal to the county commissioners of the county where the dam is located, within twenty days after notice of the determination from the commissioners of inland fisheries and game by giving to the latter named commissioners notice in writing of such appeal within that time, stating therein the reasons therefor; and at the request of the appellant or the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, the senior commissioners In oflSce of any two adjoining counties shall be associated with the commissioners of the county where the dam Is located ; they shall appoint a time to view the premises and hear the parties and give due notice thereof, and after such hearing they shall decide the question submitted, ant\ cause record to be made thereof, and their decision shall be final as to the plan and location appealed from. If the requirements of the commissioners of inland fisheries and game are afllrmed the appellants shall be liable for the costs arising after the appeal, otherwise they 41 shall be paM by the county. If a flshway thus required is not coiupleted to ttie satisfaction of the commissioners of inland fisheries and game within tlie time specified, ev<'rv owner or occupant shall forfeit not more than one hundr-^d, nor less than twenty dollars for every day of such negrlect. Ou the completion of a fishway to the satisfaciioa of the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, or at any subsequent time, they shall prescribe In writing the time during which the same shall be kept open and free from obstruction to the passage of fish each year, and a copy of such writing shall be served on the owner or occupant of the dam. The commissioners of inland fish- eries and game may change the time as they see fit. Unless otherwise provided, fishways shall be kept open and unobstructed from the first day of May to the fifteenth day of July. The penalty for negrlecting: to comply with this section, or with any regulations made in accordance herewith, is not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars for every day of such neglect. Section 7. Whenever the commissioners of inland fish- eries and game find a fishway out of repair or needing alterations, they may, as in the case of new fishways, require the owner or occupant to make such repairs or alterations; and all proceedings in such cases and the penalty for neglect shall be as provided in the preceding section without appeal. If the dam is owned and occupied by more than one person, each is liable for the cost of erecting and maintaining such fishway, in proportion to his interest in the dam, and if any owner or occupant neglects or refuses to join w^ith the others in erecting or maintaining such fishway, the other owners or occupants shall erect or repair the same, and have an action on the case against such delinquent for his share of the expenses. If the owner or occupant of such dam resides out of the state, said penalties may be recovered by a libel against the dam and land on which it stands, filed in the supreme judicial court in the county where it is located, in the name of the commissioners of inland fish- eries and game or of any inland fish and game warden or deputy inland fish and game warden who shall give to such owner or occupant, and all persons interested therein, such notice as the court or any justice thereof in vacation orders, and the court may render judgment therein, against said dam and lands for said penalties and costs, and order a sale thereof to satisfy such judgment and costs of .<^iale, subject, however, to all said requirements for the erection and maintenance or repair of said fishway. The 42 commissioners of inland fisheries and game may delegate to any inland fish and game warden or other lawful officer of inland fisheries and game any of the powers given to said commissioners in relation to the construction of flshways. HOW FISH HATCHERIES MAY BE ESTABLISHEO. Section 8. The commissioners «f inland fisheries and game for the location, construction, repair and convenient operation of a fish hatchery or fish hatcheries and feeding stations for fish may purchase, lease or take and hold, for and in behalf of the state, as for public uses, land and all materials in and upon it or any rights necessary for the purpose of establishing, erecting and operating fish hatch- eries. For real estate so taken, tlie owners are entitled to damages, to be paid by the state and estimated by the county commissioners, on written application of either party, made within one year after filing the location as hereinafter provided, or if proceedings thus commenced fail for causes not affecting the merits, new ones may be commenced, within one year thereafter. "When the com- missioners of inland fisheries and game deem that a public exigency requires the taking of any land or rights for the purposes aforesaid, they shall cause the same to be sur- veyed, located, and so described that the same can be identified, and a plan thereof shall be filed in the registry of deeds in the county, or registry district, where the land or rights are located, and there recorded. The filing of such plan and description shall vest the title to the land and right aforesaid, in the State of Maine, or its grantees, to be held during the pleasure of the state. Either party if aggrieved by a decision of the county commissioners rendered in conformity with the provisions of this section, may appeal as in cases of land taken for highways to the supreme judicial court in the county in which the land is situated. SCREENING OF LAKES AND PONDS. Section 9. The commissioners may in their discretion authorize the screening of the outlet of any pond or lake under such conditions aa they may determine. Whoever shall take up, destroy or injure any screen erected at the outlet of any lake or pond by authority of the commis- 43 sioners of inland fisheries and game, shall pay a fine of fifty dollars and costs for each ofi'ense. AUTHORITY OF COMMISSIONERS IN SETTLEMENT QF CASES OF VIOLATIONS. Section 87. The provisions of section ninety-three of chapter forty-tive, relating to the powers of the commis- sioner of sea and shore fisheries, are hereby extended to the commissioners of inhmd fisheries and game. (The following is the full text of Sec. 93, ch. 45, R. S., above referred to.) "Ch. 45, Sec. 93. All fines and penalties under this chapter may be recovered by complaint, indictment or action of debt made or brought in the county where the offense was committed. The action of debt shall be brought in the name of the commissioner of sea and shore fisheries, and all offenses under, or violations of, the provisions of this statute, may be settled by the commissioner of sea and shore fisheries, upon such terms and conditions as he deems advisable. All fines, penalties and collections under this chapter, except when otherwise expressly provided, shall forthwith be paid to the commissioner of sea and shore fisheries and by him be paid to the treasurer of state to be added to and made a part ot the appropriation for sea and shore fisheries. And the commissioner shall report to the treasurer of state the amount of each fine, penalty and collection itemized and the name of the party paying the same which shall be kept on record in the treasurer's office." ARTIFICIAL CULTURE OF FISH BY RIPARIAN PRO- PRIETORS, AND SALE AND TRANSPORTATION OF SUCH FISH. Section 33. Any riparian proprietor may, within the limits of his own premises, enclose the waters of a stream not navigable, for the cultivation of useful fishes; provided that he furnishes suitable passages for migratory fishes naturally frequenting such waters, and does not obstruct the passage of boats and other craft and materials, in places where the same have a right to pass. Any person legally engaged in the artificial culture and maintenance of fishes, may take them in his own enclosed waters 44 wlierein the same are so cultivated and maintained, as and when he pleases, and may at all times sell, ship or transport them from his own pools or ponds, without accompanying the shipment, having first procured a license therefor and tagged said fish in accordance with the rules and regulations established by the commissioners of inland fisheries and game. Section 34. No person without permission of the pro- prietor, shall fish in that portion of a pond or other water in which fish are artificially cultivated or maintained by written permission of the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, under a penalty of not less than ten, nor more than one hundred dollars, for each ofifense, besides two dollars for each fish so taken or killed; and, in default of payment, such offender shall be imprisoned at the expense of the prosecutor, until said forfeiture is paid or he is otherwise discharged by due process of law. 45 GAME AND BIRD LAWS. Protection of Moose, Caribou and Deer. Section 3(5. Whoever hunts, pursues, kills or has in pos- session any caribou or any cow moose, or part thereof, at any time, shall pay a fine of two hundred dollars and costs for each offense. Section 37. There shall be a closed time on bull moose until the first day of November in the year nineteen hundred and nineteen ; until said date no person shall hunt, taS:e, catch, kill, destroy or have in possession any bull moose or part thereof. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall pay a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than two hundred dollars and costs for each offense or be imprisoned not exceeding four months. DEEB. Section 38. There shall be an annual closed season on deer in the counties of Aroostook, Franklin, Hancock, Oxford, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset and Washington from December sixteenth of * each year to September thirtieth of the following year, both days inclusive, (except that on the island of Mount Desert and in the town of Deer Isle and in the town of Stonington, in the county of Hancock, and on Cross island and on Scotch island, in the county of Washington, no deer shall be pur- sued or killed at any time,) during which said closed season, except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to hunt, chase, catch or kill any deer or have in possession any part or parts thereof whenever or wherever taken, caught or killed ; and no person shall between October first and December fifteenth next following of each year, both days inclusive, except as hereinafter provided, take, ' catch, kill or have in possession, whenever or wherever taken, caught or killed, more than two deer or parts thereof. There shall be an annual closed season on deer in the counties of Androscoggin, Cumberland, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo and York from the first day of December of each year to the thirty-first day of October of the following year, both days inclusive, (except that in the town of Isle au Haut, in the county of Knox, and on Swan Island, in the county of Sagadahoc, no deer shall be pursued or killed at any time,) during which 46 closed season, except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to hunt, chase, catch or kill any deer, or have in possession any part or parts thereof, taken in the counties named in this paragraph ; and no person shall between the first day of November and the thirtieth day of November, of each year, both days inclusive, except as hereinafter provided, take, catch or kill in the counties named in this paragraph more than one deer ; it shall also be unlawful for any person to have in possession more than one deer, or part or parts thereof, taken in the counties named in this paragraph in one open «eason; a person lawfully killing a deer in open season shall have a reasonable time in which to transport the same to his home and may have the same in possession at his home in closed season. DAMAGE TO CROPS BY DEER. (Section 38.) . . . . Provided, however, that if a deer is found doing actual, substantial damage to any growing cultivated crops, the cultivator of such crops may kill the deer, and may consume said deer in his own family but not other- wise; but he shall not pursue the deer beyond the limits of his cultivated land in which the damage is being done; provided, further, that whoever kills a deer in accordance with the provisions herein contained shall forthwith give notice in writing to the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, at Augusta, Maine, of the fact of such killing and the character and estimated amount of damage done; whoever fails to give such notice shall in no wise be protected by the provisions hereof. Whoever shall culti- vate any crops for the manifest purpose of killing deer under the provisions of this paragraph shall in no wise be protected thereby ; and it shall be unlawful to place salt in any place for the purpose of enticing deer thereto. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall pay a fine of forty dollars and costs for each offense. USE OF DOGS, JACK-LIGHTS, ARTIFICIAL LIGHTS, SNARES AND TRAPS PROHIBITED IN HUNTING MOOSE, CARIBOU AND DEER. Section 39. No person shall at any time hunt, catch, take, kill, or destroy, with dogs, jack-lights, artificial 47 lights, snares, or traps, any moose, caribou or deer, under a penalty of one hundred dollars and costs for each offense. Section 40. Any person owning or having in his posses- sion any dog for the purpose of hunting or chasing moose, caribou or deer, or who permits any dog owned by him or in his possession to hunt or chase moose, caribou or deer, after notice that such dog has chased moose, caribou or deer, shall pay a fine of forty dollars and costs for each offense. DOGS MAY BE KILLED, WHEN. (Ch. 4 R. S. Sec. 116.) Any person may at any time lawfully kill any dog found hunting or chasing moose, caribou, or deer, or any dog kept and used for that purpose. Any person may lawfully kill a dog which suddenly assaults him or another person when peaceably walking or riding, or is found worrying, wounding, or killing any domestic animal when said dog is outside of the enclosure or immediate care of his owner 'or keeper. DEER CANNOT BE SOLD OR GIVEN AWAY TO BE TAKEN OUT OF THE STATE. Section 41. No person shall sell or give away any deer or part thereof to be transported or carried beyond the limits of this state ; and no person shall buy or accept as a gift any deer or part thereof to so transport the same; and bo resfdent of this state shall carry or trans- port in any manner beyond the limits of this state more than one deer or part thereof in any one year. Whoever violates any provision ef this section shall pay a fine of forty dollars and costs for each offense. TRANSPORTATION OF DEER. Residents Must Identify Shipments at Inspection Stations. Section 44. Except as . herein provided no person or corporation shall carry or transport from place to place any deer or part thereof in closed season nor in open season unless open to view, tagged, and p-lainly labeled witb the name and residence of the owner thereof, and accompanied by him whije being transported and identified by him at such places as the commissioners of Inland 48 fisheries and game shall have designated by publication in the daily newspapers in the state, under a penalty of forty dollars and costs for ea«h deer or part thereof so transported or carried, and any person not the actual owner of such deer, or part thereof, Avho, to aid another in such transportation, falsely represents himself to be the owner thereof, shall be liable to the same penalty; and it shall be prima facie evidence that said deer or part thereof, that is being transported or carried in violation of this section, was illegally killed. TRANSPORTATION OF DEER UNDER TAG WITHOUT ACCOMPANYING SAME. Section 42. Any citizen of the state who has lawfully killed a deer may send the same to his home or to any hospital in the state, without accompanying the same, by purchasing of the duly constituted agent therefor a tag, paying for a deer two dollars, and said tag shall be attached to the deer, or part thereof, being transported. The commissioners of inland fisheries and game may. appoint agents in convenient localities who may sell these tags, under such rules and regulations as said commis- sioners may adopt. ONE LUMBER CAMP MUST NOT HAVE OR USE MORE THAN TWO DEER IN ONE SEASON. Section 43. No owner, keeper or occupant of any camp, house or other building used partly or wholly in lumber- ing operations, shall have, use or keep in any manner more than two deer, or parts thereof, in any one open season for deer in any one year, under a penalty of forty dollars and costs for each deer or part thereof so had in possession or used in violation hereof. SUNDAY HUNTING PROHIBITED. Section 73. Sunday is a closed season, on which it is not lawful to hunt, kill or destroy any wild animals or wild birds of any kind. Whoever hunts, kills, or destroys any wild animal or wild bird on Sunday shall pay a fine of not less than ten, nor more than forty dollars and costs for each offense; provided, however, that if protected 49 wild animals or wild birds are limited, killed, destroyed or had in possession in violation of this section, the penalty- shall be the same as is now imposed therefor during: other closed season; but the penalties imposed for the violation of the Sunday laws of the statutes of this state are not hereby repealed or diminished. NIGHT HUNTING PROHIBITED. Section 74. There shall be a closed season on wild birds in this state from sunset to sunrise of the following morning, and on wild animals from one hour after sunset until one hour before sunrise of the following morning, during which closed season it shall be unlawful to hunt, kill or destroy wild birds or wild animals, of any kind. No person shall have in possession, at any time, any wild bird or wild animal, or part thereof, taken in violation of any provision of this section. Whoever violates any pro- vision of this section shall pay a fine of not less than ten, nor more than fifty dollars and costs for each offense; provided, however, that if protected wild birds or wild animals are hunted, killed, destroyed or had in possession in violation of this section the penalty shall be the same as is now imposed therefor during other closed season ; provided, further, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to the hunting of raccoons at night from AugU'St fifteenth to October thirty-first, following, of each year, both days inclusive. HUNTING FROM AUTOMOBILES PROHIBITED. Section 64. It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt, chase, catch, kill or destroy any wild bird or wild animal at any time from an automobile, or by aid or use of any light or lights carried thereon, or attached thereto. It shall also be unlawful for any person to have In posses- sion, at any time, any wild bird or wild animal, or part thereof, taken in violation of any provision of this section. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall pay a fin© of not less than forty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars and costs for each offense. SILENCERS CANNOT BE USED ON FIREARMS. Section 80. No person shall sell, offer for sale, use or have in his possessio-n, any gun, pistol, or other firearm, fitted or contrived with any device for deadening the 4 50 sound of explosion. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall forfeit such firearm or firearms and the device or silencer, and shall further be subject to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or to imprisonment not exceeding sixty days, or to both fine and imprison- ment. Any sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, inland fish and game warden or deputy inland fish and game warden may seize any firearm or firearms and any device or silencer found in possession of any person in violation of this section, and on conviction of the party from whom such firearm or firearms are seized, such firearm or fire- arms shall be sold, the proceeds to be paid to the treasurer of state, and the device or silencer shall be destroyed. This section does not apply to military organizations authorized by law to bear arms, or to the national guard in the performance of its duty. All fines, penalties and forfeitures recovered by any person for any violation of this section shall be paid forthwith by the person re- ceiving the same to the treasurer of state, to be credited to fines and license fees for the protection of birds and game. THE SELLING OR GIVING AWAY OF AIR RIFLES TO CHILDREN UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE PROHIBITED. (Chapter 302, P. L. 1917.) Section 1. Whoever sells or gives away an air rifle to any child under the age of fourteen years shall be fined not less than five nor more than twenty dollars. Section 2. Municipal courts and trial justices shall have jurisdiction of violations of the preceding section. AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE CARRYING OF DANGEROUS OR DEADLY WEAPONS WITHOUT A LICENSE. (Chapter 217 P. L. 1917.) Section 1. No person shall in a threatening manner dis- play any firearm, slung-shot, knuckles, bowye knife, dirk, stiletto or other dangerous or deadly weapon, nor shall wear under his clothes or concealed about his person any such firearm, slung-shot, knuckles, bowie knife, dirk, stiletto or other dangerous or deadly weapon unless first licensed so to do in the following manner. 51 Section 2. The cnief of police or city marslial or in his absence, either of his captains of police of any city or the selectmen of any town, may upon written application issue to any person of good moral character, a ceriiticate setting forth that such person has complied with the recLuiremonts of this law and that he has been duly licensed to carry such weapon or weapons. Said license shall continue in effect until revoked by the chief of police or by the select- men of the town in which said license was issued. Section 3. Nothing in the foregoing section shall be construed as prohibiting the carrying or wearing of such weapons by United States marshals, sheriffs and their deputies, constables and police officers and other officers duly commissioned by the commissioners of inland fish- eries and game. Section 4-. Whoever violates the provisions of this law shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars or confined in the county jail for a period not exceeding ninety days. PROTECTION OF GRAY SQUIRRELS. Section 48. There shall be an annual closed season on gray squirrels during which closed season no person shall shoot at, kill, or have them in possession except alive, from the first day of November of each year until the thirtieth day of September of the following year, both days in- clusive ; provided, however, that there shall be a perpetual closed season on gray squiri-els within all public or private parks and within the limits of the compact or built-up portion of any city or village. Whoever shall shoot at or kill or have in possession any gray squirrel in violation of any provision of this section shall pay a fine of not more than five dollars and costs, for each oflfense. PROTECTION OF WILD HARES OR RABBITS. Section 49. There shall be an annual closed season on wild hares or rabbits, during which closed season no person shall hunt, kill, catch, pursue or have them in possession except alive, during the months of April, May, June, July, August and September of each year. No per- son shall use any snares, traps or other devices in the hunting, pursuing or killing of wild hares or rabbits, or hunt or kill the same except in the ordinary method of shooting with guns in the usual manner; provided, how- 52 ever, that it shall be lawful to catch wild hares or rabbits in common box traps during the open season provided in this section. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall pay a fine of ten dollars and costs, for each offense. PROTECTION OF BEAVER. Section 45. The commissioners of inland fisheries and game, upon written complaint of any land owner that beaver are doing actual, substantial damage to his property, shall have authority to declare an open season for beaver upon such land for such period of time as they may deem necessary to remove the beaver that are doing the damage complained of, during which open season it shall be lawful for any licensed hunter and trapper of fur- bearing animals to trap beaver thereon. No open season for beaver as contemplated by this section shall take effect until the commissioners of inland fisheries and game shall have caused notice of such proposed open season to be published once in a newspaper printed in the county in which the land on which the open season for beaver is declared is located, and said commissioners shall also file copy of said notice of open season with the clerk of the town or plantation in which such land is located, or if the land is in an unorganized place, with the clerk of courts for the county in which the land is located. When- ever during a special open season on beaver as is con- templated by this section it shall appear to the commission- ers of inland fisheries and game that the privileges of such open season are being abused in any place, said commis- sioners of inland fisheries and game may suspend the open season and declare it close season for beaver on such land for such time as they may designate. No person shall take any beaver anywhere in the state at any time except during such open season as may be declared by the commissioners of inland fisheries and game in accordance with the provisions of this section. Whoever takes any beaver in violation of any provision of this section shall be punished by fine of twenty-five dollars and costs for each beaver taken, caught or killed in violation of any provision of this section. It shall also be unlawful, under the same penalty, for any person to have in possession at any time, any beaver, or part thereof, taken in violation of any pro- vision of this section. 53 PROTECTION OF FUR BEARING ANIMALS OTHER THAN BEAVER. Section 46. Whoever, from the first day of March to the fourteenth day of the following October, both days in- clusive, hunts, traps, kills, pursues or catches any fur- bearing animal (except bears, muskrats, raccoons, beaver, bob-cats, loupcervier, Canada lynx, and weasels) or who- ever, from the first day of March to the fourteenth day of the following August, both days inclusive, hunts, traps, kills, pursues or catches, any raccoon, or whoever from the first day of May to the fourteenth day of the following October, both days inclusive, hunts, traps, kills, pursues or catches, any muskrat, or whoever has in possession at any time any fur-bearing animal or part thereof taken in closed season, shall pay a fine of ten dollars and costs for each offense and in addition thereto three dollars for each fur-bearing animal hunted, trapped, killed, pursued, caught or had in possession in violation hereof. Provided, further, that it shall be unlawful under the same penalty to take, catch, trap, kill or destroy any muskrat or musk- rats at any time in Lower Kezar pond, in the town of Fryeburg in the county of Oxford, and in the town of Bridgton in the county of Cumberland, or in the outlet stream of said Lower Kezar pond, or in the Kozar meadows, so-called, adjacent to said pond, (which meadows are bounded by the outlet stream of said pond, by the old Saco river, by the "Uplands," so-called, and by the "Upland" on the easterly side of said meadows) or in the east bog, so-called, or in the west bog, so-called, bounded by the "Uplands," and on the Avesterly side by a wire fence on land owned by E. C, Buzzell. Provided, further, it shall be unlawful to set a trap at any time within twenty-five feet of a muskrat house, under penalty of ten dollars and costs for each offense. Whoever at any time hunts, traps, kills, pursues, catches or has in possession any beaver, or part thereof, except as provided in the pre- ceding section, shall pay a fine of one hundred dollars and costs for each ofifense. DIGGING OUT OF FOX DENS PROHIBITED. Section 47. No person shall at any time dig out, molest or destroy in any way any fox den or fox dens or remove or cause to be removed therefrom any fox or foxes, except 54 those enclosed in private fox ranches. Whoever violates any provision of tliis section shall pay a fine of ten dollars and costs for each offense. TRAPPING OF FUR BEARING ANIMAL,S. Section 50. Whoever hunts, captures or traps any fur- bearing animals, except bob-cats, loupcervier or Canada lynx, in any of the unorganized townships of the state shall annually procure a license therefor, from the com- missioners of inland fisheries and game, paying therefor a fee of five dollars ; and he shall, on or before the fifteenth day of December of each year, make such report to said commissioners as may be called for by them. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall pay a fine of fifty dollars and costs, for each offense. TRAPS MUST BE MARKED. Snares Cannot Be Used. Section 51. No person shall at any time set a snare for any fur-bearing animal, nor shall any person at any time set any trap or traps of any kind for any wild animal without having the trap or traps plainly labeled with his full name and address, either by having the same stamped on the trap or on a metal tag, firmly attached to the trap. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall pay a fine of five dollars and costs for each offense and in addition thereto five dollars for each trap set and not marked as provided herein, and shall forfeit the trap or traps, and any wild animal found therein, to any person finding the same. BEAR TRAP MUST BE ENCLOSED IN A "HUT." NOTICE MUST BE POSTED. (Section 51.) . . . . Provided, that no person shall set a bear trap at any time unless a written or printed notice stating that such a trap has been set is posted conspicuously in the immediate vicinity, under a penalty of fifty dollars and costs for each offense; and no person shall set a bear trap at any time unless the same is enclosed in a hut, so-called, under the same penalty. 55 IT IS UNLAWFUL TO SET A TRAP WITHIN 25 FEET OF A MUSKKAT HOUSE. PENALTY, $10 AND COSTS FOR EACH OFFENSE. (See Sec. 46, p. 5:3.) POISONING OF ANIMALS UNLAWFUL. (Ch. 20 R. S., Sec. 18.) Whoever for the purpose of killing wolves, foxes, clogs or other animals, and not for the destruction of insects or vermin in a building, leaves or deposits in any place any arsenic, corrosive sublimate, nux vomica, strychnine, prussic acid, or any other poison or poisonous substance, shall be fined not less than twenty, nor more than fifty dollars, or be imprisoned not less than thirty, nor more than six.ty days. TRAPS MUST BE VISITED. Permit Must Be Secured in Order to Set Traps in Organized or Incorporated Place. Section 52. Any person setting a trap in any organized or incorporated place shall visit said trap, or cause the same to be visited, at least once in every twenty-four hours apd remove therefrom, or cause to be removed, any animal found caught therein. No person shall set traps in any organized or incorporated place without first obtaining the written consent of the owner or occupant of the land on which said traps are to be set. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall pay a fine of not less than ten, nor more than fifty dollars and costs for each offense. WILD ANIMALS OR WILD BIRDS FOUND DESTROY- ING PROPERTY MAY BE KILLED. (Section 46.) Any person may InAvfully kill any wild animal (other than beaver) or any wild bird found destroying, his property. BOUNTY ON BOB-CATS. Section ^?,. A bounty r%f four dollnrs for every bob-cat. loupcervier or Canada lynx killed in any town shall be 56 paid by the treasurer of state to the person killing it upon compliance with the folloAving conditions : No bounty shall be paid unless the claimant, within five days after he has killed such animal, or has returned from the hunting in which he killed it, exhibits to the town treasurer the entire skin thereof with the ears, nose and tail thereon in as perfect a state as when killed, except natural decay, and signs a certificate under oath, which said treasurer may administer, stating that he killed such animal and the time and place, which shall be within the state, and the treasurer shall thereupon cut off the whole of the tail from such skin and forward the same by mail to the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, at Augusta, Maine, together with the claimant's certificate, which certificate shall be in the following form: CLAIMANT'S CERTIFICATE. To the treasurer of the town of : I hereby certify that on the day of A. D. 19 , at , in the State of Maine, I killed the bob-cat, loupcervier or Canada lynx, the skin of which I now exhibit to you, and I claim the bounty allowed by law for killing the same. Dated at , this day of A. D. 19 Claimant. Subscribed and sworn to before me the day and year aforesaid. Treasurer of And the treasurer of said town shall make and send at once to the commissioners of inland fisheries and game a certificate which shall be in the following form : TOWN TREASURER'S CERTIFICATE. To the commissioners' of inland fisheries and game : I hereby certify that as required by law, , of on the day of A, D. 19 , at , exhibited to me the whole of the skin of a bobcat, loupcervier or Canada lynx, and signed and made oath to the following certificate: To the treasurer of the town of I hereby certify that on the day of A. D. 19 , at , in the State of Maine, 1 killed the bobcat, loupcervier or Canada lynx, the skin of 57 which I now exhibit to you, and I claim tlie bounty allowed by law for killing the same. Dated at , this day of A, D. 19 . Claimant. I further certify that I cut o& the whole of the tail from the skin of the bobcat, loupcervier or Canada lynx described in this certificate and enclose the same herewith. Dated at , this day of A. D. 19 . Treasurer of the town of Subscribed and sworn to the day and year aforesaid. Justice of the Peace. Upon receipt by the state auditor of a certificate from the commissioners of inland fisheries and game showing that said commissioners have received the tail of the bobcat, loupcervier or Canada lynx from the treasurer sent as aforesaid, together with said treasurer's certificate, said state auditor shall audit the claim for bounty and the same shall be paid forthwith by the treasurer of state to the claimant from the appropriation for bounties on bobcat, loupcervier or Canada lynx. The town treasurer for administering the oath to a claimant's certificate as above, and for forwarding the same with the tail of the animal to the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, shall be paid by the claimant the sum of twenty -five cents. BOUNTY ON BEARS. (Chapter 215, P. L. 1917.) Section 1. A bounty of five dollars for each and every bear killed in this State shall be paid to the person kill- ing the same. If the animal is killed in a town or plan- tation, the bounty shall be paid by the treasurer thereof: if the animal is killefi in an unincorporated place, the bounty shall be paid by the treasurer of an adjoining town or plantation, if any, otherwise by the treasurer of the nearest town or plantation. Section 2. No bounty shall be paid unless the claimant, Avithin ten days after he has killed such animal, or has returned from the hunting, in which he killed it, exhibits to the town treasurer the entire skin of the animal for the killing of which such bounty is claimed, with the nose thereof in as perfect a state as when killed, excepting natural decay, and signs and makes oath to a certificate, which oath said treasurer may administer, in which he shall state that he killed such animal, and the time and 58 place, showing it to be within the county ; and the treasurer shall thereupon cut off the whole nose from such skin and entirely destroy it by burning ; then he shall pay the bounty and take the claimant's receipt therefor upon the same paper with such certificate. The town treasurer shall immediately make upon the same paper a certificate made under oath addressed to the treasurer of State, that he first cut off the nose from the skin and destroyed it by burning, and then paid said bounty to the claimant. Section 3. Said certificate and receipts shall be trans- mitted to the treasurer of State monthly, and by him laid before the Governor and Council as early as convenient ; and when allowed by them shall be paid by the treasurer of State to such town. Section 4. The certificate shall be in the following form: CLAIMANT'S CERTIFICATE. To the treasurer of , I hereby certify that on the da^ of , A. D., 19.., at , in the county of and State of Maine, I killed the bear the skin of which I now exhibit to you ; and I claim the bounty allowed by law for killing the same. Dated at , this day of 10... , Claipiant. Subscribed and sworn to before me on the day and year aforesaid treasurer of CLAIMANT'S RECEIPT. On this day of , A. D. 19. . I received of treasurer of five dollars, being the bounty allowed by law for killing the bear described in the above certificate. . Claimant. TREASURER'S CERTIFICATE. T hereby oertlfv that as required by law. T first cut off the whole nose from the skin of the bear deRcribed in the foregoing certificate and destroyed the same by burning. 59 and then paid the said , the bounty for which I have taken his receipt as above. Dated at , this day of A. D. 19... Subscribed and sworn to before me the day and year aforesaid Justice of the peace. Section 5. The bounty so paid by the State treasurer shall be taken from the fees received from the licenses of dogs, in the State of Maine. PROTECTION OF GAME BIRDS. (Note. The State Bird Laws were amended by the Legis- lature of 1917 so that they now conform to the Federal Migratory Bird Laws.) Section 55. There shall be an annual closed season for ruffed grouse, commonly called partridge, spruce partridge, woodcock, all varieties of wild ducks, brant, geese, plover, snipe, sora and other rails, coots and gallinules, as follows : On partridge and woodcock, above named, from the first day of December of each year to the thirtieth day of September of the following year, both days inclusive; on all varieties of ducks, brant and geese and on coots, gallinules and jacksnipe, or Wilson Snipe, from the first day of January of each year to the fifteenth day of the following September, both days inclusive; on black- breasted and golden plover and greater and lesser yellow- legs, from the first day of December of each year to the fifteenth day of August of the following year, both days inclusive; on rails (except coots and gallinules) from the first day of December of each year to the thirty-first day of August of the following year, both days inclusive, during which closed seasons it shall be unlawful to hunt, chase, catch, kill or have in possession any of the above- named birds except as hereinafter provided ; provided, further, that it shall be unlawful to hunt, chase, catch, kill or destroy or have in possession at any time, any curlew, woodduck, swans, or any shore birds except black- breasted and golden plover, Wilson or Jacksnipe, wood- cock, and greater or lesser yellowlegs ; . . . . DAILY I.IMIT ON GAME BIRDS. (Section 55.) No person shall, during the respective open seasons for the above-named birds, take, catch, kill, destroy or have in possession in any one day more than five • 60 partridge or ruffed grouse, ten woodcock, ten ducks, five plover and ten snipe; .... SALE OF GAME BIRDS PROHIBITED. (Section 55.) nor shall any person at any time buy or sell any of the above-named birds; .... TRANSPORTATION OF GAME BIRDS. (Section 55.) nor shall any person or corporation carry or transport from place to place any of the birds mentioned in this section in closed season (except that a person shall have a reasonable time after the beginning of closed season to transport, as hereinafter provided, to his home game birds legally killed by him in open season,) nor in open season unless open to view, tagged and plainly labeled with the owner's name and residence, and accompanied by him, unless tagged with a transportation tag as hereinafter provided ; nor shall any person or corporation carry or transport in any one day more than ten ducks, five plover, ten snipe, five partridges and ten woodcock, as the property of one person TRANSPORTATION OF GAME Birds Under Tag, Within and AVithout the State. (Section 55.) Provided, however, it shall be lawful for a citizen of this state who has purchased a transportation tag therefor ol the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, and paid five dollars for the same, to take with him out of the state five partridges or ten ducks or ten woodcock, which he himself has lawfully killed, by attaching said tag to the birds being transported by virtue of this paragraph. Provided, further, that any citizen of this state who has lawfully in his possession one pair of either of the birds named in this section, may send the same anywhere in this state Avithout accompanying the same, by purchasing of the duly constituted agent therefor a transportation tag, paying therefor the sum of fifty cents, and attaching said 61 tag to the pair of birds. Provided, further, that no person shall under any of the provisions of this paragraph send as aforesaid more than one pair of game birds once in seven days. PENALTY. Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section sliall pay a fine of ten dollars and costs for each offense, and in addition thereto one dollar for each bird of the above-named varieties taken, caught, killed, had in posses- sion or transported in violation hereof. ILI.EGAI. METHODS OF HUNTING BIRDS. Section 56. Whoever at any time or at any place with any trap, net, snare or contrivance other than the usual method of shooting with firearms takes any bird of any variety in anywise protected by this chapter shall pay a fine of five dollars and costs for each bird so taken, and when such prohibited implements or devices are found m possession they are forfeit and contraband and may be seized by any person authorized to enforce the inland fish and game laws. PROTECTION OF BIRDS OTHER THAN GAME BIRDS. Section 57. No person shall within the state, kill or catch or have in his or her possession, living or dead, any wild bird, other than a game bird, nor purchase, offer or expose for sale, any such wild bird after it has been killed or caught. No part of the plumage, skin or body of any bird protected by this section shall be sold or had in possession for sale. Nor shall any person take or need- lessly destroy the nest or the eggs of any wild bird, nor have such nest or eggs in possession. The English or European house sparrow, the common crow, and the hawks and owls, mud hens (or bittern), kingfishers, loons and blue herons are not included among the birds herein pro- tected; and for the purposes of this chapter the following only shall be considered game birds : the anatidse, com- monly known as swans, geese, brant, and river and sea ducks ; the rallidse, commonly known as rails, coots, and gallinulee; the limicolse, commonly known as shore birds, plovers, surf birds, snipe, woodcock, sand-pipers, tatlers and curlews; the gallinse, commonly known as wild turkeys, grouse, prairie chickens, pheasants, partridges and quails. Nothing in this section, however, shall be con- 6i2 strued to affect in any way the protection of game birds, as provided in sections lifty-four and fifty-five. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this section shall pay a fine of five dollars and costs, for each offense, and an additional five dollars for each bird, living or dead, or part of a bird, or nest, or egg possessed in violation of this section, or be imprisoned for ten days. HUNTING OF CERTAIN OTHER BIRDS PROHIBITED. Section 54. No person shall hunt, chase, catch, kill, destroy or have in possession at any time any eagle, Hun- garian partridge, or capercailzie, or cock of the woods, or any black game, or any species of the pheasant, except ruffed grouse or partridge. Whoever violates this section shall pay a fine of ten dollars and costs for each offense. MOTOR BOATS CAN^NOT BE USED IN HUNTING SEA BIRDS, DUCK OR WATER FOWL IN MAINE. Section 58. No person shall at any time use a boat or launch of any kind propelled by steam, naphtha, gasolio'^ or electricity, or any other mode than the ordinary sailboat or rowboat, in chasing, hunting or gunning any sea birds, duck or water fowl in any inland or tidal waters of this state, under a penalty of not less than twenty-five, nor more than one hundred dollars and costs for each offense. UNLAWFUL TO IMPORT WILD BIRDS OR ANIMALS AVITHOUT PERMIT. Section 75. AVhoever introduces or imports any wild bird or wild animal of any kind or species into the state, or whoever receives or has in possession such wild bird or wild animal so introduced or imported, except upon written permission of the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, shall forfeit not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars and costs, for each offense. TERRITORY IN WHICH HUNTING IS PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED. Section 76. No person shall at any time hunt, pursue, shoot at or kill any wild bird or wild animal on Kineo Point, in Kineo, in the county of Piscataquis. Whoever violates this section shall pay a fine of not less than ten nor more than forty dollars and costs, for each offense. 63 Section 77. No person shall, except as herein provided, at any time, hunt, pursue, shoot at or kill any wild animal or any game or other wild bird within the following described territory situated in the town of Eden, in the county of Hancock : Bounded on the north and east by the Atlantic ocean, on the south by the highway leading from Hull's Cove bridge to the Beaver Dam bridge near Shea Brothers' farm, and on the west by the highway leading from said Beaver Dam bridge to Salisbury cove; or on Bartlett's island in Hancock county; or on the one hundred and twelve acres of land, more or less, comprising Front's Neck, so-called, in the town of Scarboro, in the county of Cumberland; or on Richmond's island, so-called, in the town of Cape Elizabeth, in said county of Cumberland ; or on the tract of land comprising sixteen hundred acres, more or less, situated in said town of Cape Elizabeth, and bounded as follows : Southerly by the sea, westerly by the Spurwink river; northerly by the Spurwink road, so-called, leading from Spurwink bridge to Bowery Beach, easterly by a certain private road or way which runs in a southerly direction from the aforesaid Spurwink road to said Bowery Beach, being the road which runs in front of the dwelling house of one Charles L. Jordan and along the easterly boundary of land of said Charles L. Jordan and al(5ng the westerly boundary of land of the Great Pond Club, but not including any portion of said Bowerj' Beach. It shall also be unlawful for any person to have in possession at any time any wild bird or wild animal, or part thereof, taken in violation of any provisibn of this section. Provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not prohibit any person residing on said island or within the limits of either of the above described reserva- tions or preserves from snooting at or destroying any wild bird (except ruffed grouse or Hungarian partridge) or any wild animal, when found destroying his property ; and provided, further, that the provisions of this section shall not be construed to prohibit the trapping of wild animals within the above described territory in accordance with the general laws of the state. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be subject to a penalty of not less than ten, nor more than forty dollars and costs, for each offense. Section 78. No person shall at any time hunt, chase, catch, kill or destroy any wild bird or any wild animal within the following described territory situated on the southerly point of Swan Island, in the county of Saga- dahoc : All of the territory situated southerly of the land 64 formerly owned by Robert Reetl to high water mark on the shores thereof; nor shall any person at any time hunt, chase, catch, kill or destroy any water fowl or any other wild bird in Back Bay, so-called, in Portland, in the county of Cumberland, above the Grand Trunk Railway Bridge, No person shall have in possession at any time any water fowl or any other wild bird or any wild animal, or part thereof, taken in violation of any provision of this section. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall pay a fine of not less than ten, nor more than forty dollars and costs, for each offense. Section 79. The use of firearms is hereby prohibited from the first day of April of each year to the thirtieth day of September following, both days inclusive, upon the waters of Megunticook Lake, formerly called Canaan Lake, and its tributary lakes, ponds and streams, and upon the land bordering on the same included within the following roads: Beginning at Hopkins Corner, so-called, in the town of Camden ; thence via the Turnpike Road, so-called, to Lincolnville Center; thence to Wiley's Corner in Lincoln- ville; thence to the Mansfield school house tn the town of Camden; thence via the Fish Hatchery to place of be- ginning; all of said lake, its tributaries and shores being located in the towns of Camden, Lincolnville and Hope, in the counties of Knox and Waldo. Provided, however, that the Camden Rifle Club may establish and maintain a rifle range for target practice within the limits above mentioned, said practice to be held under the regulations of the United States War Department as established by the National Board for the promotion of Rifle Practice in the United States. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall pay a fine of not less than ten, nor more than thirty dollars and costs for each offense. NON-RESIDENT HUNTERS MUST BE LICENSED. Section 59. Persons not bona fide residents of the state, and actually domiciled therein, shall not hunt, pursue, take or kill any deer, ducks, partridges, woodcock, or other wild birds or wild animals, or have the same, or any part thereof, in possession at any time without first having procured a license therefor as hereinafter provided. Such licenses shall be issued by the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, upon application in writing and pay- ment of fifteen dollars to hunt deer, ducks, partridges, woodcock and other birds and wild animals during their 65 respective open seasons, and in the manner provided by law, in October, November and December. But to hunt ducks, and other birds and wild animals in their respective open seasons, and in the manner provided by law, in the counties of Aroostook, Washington, Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset, Franklin and Oxford up to October first of each j^ear a license fee of five dollars shall be paid annually, provided, further, that in the counties of An- droscoggin, Cumberland, Knox, Kennebec, Lincoln, Saga- dahoc, Waldo and York such person may procure a license for five dollars to hunt, in the respective open seasons and in the manner provided by law, ducks, partridges, wood- cock and other birds and wild animals except during the month of November, during Avhich month a fifteen dollar license shall be required in said counties. A person having paid the fee of five dollars may procure a license to hunt doer and other wild animals and wild birds, in their respective open seasons and in the manner provided by law, during the open season on deer by paying an ad- ditional fee of ten dollars. Such license shall entitle the purchaser to take to his home in addition as now provided, properly tagged ,with the tag detachod from his license, and open to view, five partridges, ten ducks and ten wood- cock that he has himself lawfully killed under such rules and regulations to be established by the commissioners as may be required to carry out the true intent of this chapter and not inconsistent herewith. Section 60. Each license shall be provided with two coupons, each' of which shall permit the transportation of the carcass of one deer or part thereof, and shall be divided into two sections eacli. lettered "A" and "B" and "C" and "D" respectively, and shall be called the deer coupons. The holder of a non-resident hunter's license shall be entitled to offer for transportation and have transported, within or without this state, by any railroad company, express company, boat or other transportation company, the carcass of one deer, or part of the carcass of one deer, that he himself has lawfully killed, on each of the deer coupons attached to his said license, by presenting to the agent of any transportation company, his license, with the coupons attached to the license at the time when he shall offer the deer or part thereof for shipment. If but one deer is offered for shipment the agent shall detach section "A" from the first "deer" coupon of the license, cancel the same by writing or stamping thereon the date and place G6 of shipment and his name, and shall forward the same forthwith to the commissioners of inland fisheries and game at Augusta, Maine; section "B" of said coupon shall be likewise canceled and shall be attached to the carcass, or part of the carcass, of the deer offered for shipment and shall remain attached to the same while it is being trans- ported in this state. In case two deer are offered for shipment the agent re- ceiving the same for shipment shall detach sections "A" and "C" from the "deer" coupons and after canceling the same shall forward them to the commissioners as afore- said, and sections "B" and "D" shall be likewise canceled and attached to the carcasses of the deer, or parts thereof, offered for shipment, and shall remain attached to the same while they are being transported in this state. Section 61. No person shall transport any deer, or part thereof, for any non-resident, otherwise than as provided in this section and the two preceding sections. No agent, servant or em?)loyee of any transportation company, rail- road company, express company, boat or common carrier shall receive for shipment or transport, or have in his pos- session with Intent to ship or transport- any carcass of a deer, or part of the same, or any game birds, for a non- resident, except as provided in this section and the two preceding sections, or refuse or neglect to detach the sec- tions of the coupons as therein provided, or fail to forward to the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, at Augusta, Maine, as therein provided, the sections of coupons by him detached; provided, however, that any person who has purchased a non-resident hunter's license and who has in his possession one pair of game birds which he has legally killed may transport the same to his home or to any hospital in this state without accompany- ing the shipment, by purchasing of the duly constituted agent therefor a tag, paying for the same fifty cents, and by presenting said tag with the pair of game birds offered for shipment to the agent of any transportation company or common carrier, together with his non-resident hunter's license. Before accepting a pair of game birds for ship- ment as herein provided, the agent of the transportation company or common carrier to whom the same is offered for shipment shall be satisfied that the person presenting the pair of game birds for shipment is the person to whom the non-resident hunter's license offered for inspection was issued, and shall securely affix the tag to such shipment; provided, further, that no person shall send more than one pair of game birds under a special tag, as provided herein, but once in thirty days. 67 Section 62. The possession of any firearm in the fields or forests or on the waters or ice of the state by any person who is not a bona fide resident of the state and actually domiciled therein, unless the person having such ■ firearm in possession has in his possession a license, as provided by section fifty-nine of this chapter, duly issued to him and covering the period such firearm is found in his possession, shall be prima facie evidence of hunting in violation of section fifty-nine of this chapter. Whoever violates any provision of the three preceding sections, or who shall furnish to another person, or permit another person to have or use any license or coupon issued to him, or change or alter the same in any manner, or who has or uses any license or coupon issued to another person, or whoever knowingly guides any non-resident in hunting who has not a license to hunt as herein provided, shall pay a fine of not less than twenty-five, nor more than one hun- dred dollars and costs, for each offense. NON-RESIDENT FISHERMEN MUST BE I.ICENSED. (Chapter 66, P. L. 1917.) Section 1. Persons not bona fide residents of the State, and not actually domiciled therein, except children under fourteen years of age, shall not fish for, take, catch or kill any kind of fish at any time in any of the inland waters of the State, or have the same or any part thereof in possession, without first having procured a license therefor as hereinafter provided. Such licenses shall be of such form and style as may be prescribed by the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, and shall be issued by town clerks and other agents appointed by said commissioners under such regulations as may be established by said com- missioners, upon application in writing on blanks to be furnished by said commissioners and payment of a fee of two dollars and fifteen cents. Section 2. All licenses issued by virtue of this act shall expire with the calendar year in which issued and shall entitle the purchaser thereof to take fish in the inland waters of this State and transport the same during the period covered by said license in accordance with the laws of the State. The purchaser of a license to fish by virtue of this act may offer for transportation and have trans- ported in accordance with the provisions of chapter thirty- three of the Revised Statutes fish which he has legally In possession by exhibiting his license to the agent of a transportation company, who shall endorse upon the back thereof, in ink, the name of the station from which said shipment is made, the date of shipment, the destination and weight of each kind of fish shipped, and such ship- ment shall have afllxed thereto a tag plainly marked with the name and address of the shipper, the license number and the kind and weight of such fish. If a license is pre- sented with a consignment of fish and the endorsement on such license shows that the holder of the license is not authorized by law to offer such fish for shipment, such agent shall refuse to accept the same for shipment. Section 3. The commissioners of inland fisheries and game may temporarily revoke any license issued by virtue of this act when the holder thereof is charged with having violated any of the inland fish and game laws of this State, and if the holder is convicted of a violation of the inland fish and game laws of the State his license may be fully revoked and another license shall not be issued to such person until after a year from the time of revocation except upon written consent of the commissioners of inland fisheries and game. Section 4. No person to whom a license has been issued as herein provided, shall fish for, take, catch, kill, have in possession, transport or offer for transportation any inland fish unless at the time of such fishing for, taking, catching, killing, having in possession, transporting or offering for transportation inland fish such person has such license on his person. Such person shall exhibit such license, on de- mand, to any officer authorized to enforce the inland fish and game laws. Section 5. Every town clerk or agent appointed to issue licenses as provided in this act shall on the first Monday of each month forward to the commissioners of inland fisheries and game the amount received, if any, for such licenses issued during the preceding month, less a record- ing fee of fifteen cents for each license issued, together M'ith the application for and stub of each license issued. Any town clerk or agent appointed to issue licenses by virtue of this act who shall neglect or refuse to issue such licenses under regulations established by the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, or who shall neglect or refuse to remit for licenses issued by virtue of this act within a period of thirty days from the first Monday of each month shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars and costs for each ofEense. 69 Section 6. All license fees collected by virtue of this act shall be paid by the commissioners of inland fisheries and game to the State treasurer and shall be set apart as a fund to be expended by said commissioners, with the approval of the governor and council, for the propagation and protection of inland fish in this State, and said com- missioners are hereby authorized to receive and expend said moneys in the manner. and purposes as herein speci- fied ; provided, however, that in case of a failure to con- vict in any prosecution for any violation of any provision of this act, the costs of said prosecution shall be paid out of the fund created by this act. Section 7. The possession of any fishing tackle in the fields or forests or on the waters or ice of the State by any non-resident required to be licensed by virtue of this act, unless the person having such fishing tackle in posses- sion has in his possession a fishing license, as herein pro- vided, duly issued to him and covering the period the fishing tackle is found in his possession, shall be prima facie evidence of fishing in violation of this act. PENALTY. " Section 8. Whoever violates any provision of sections one, two, four, or seven of this act, or who shall furnish to another person or permits another person to have or use any license issued to him, or changes or alters the same in any manner, or who has or uses any license issued to another person, or whoever knowingly guides any non-resident for inland fishing who has not a license for fishing as herein provided, shall pay a fine of not less than ten or more than thirty dollars and costs for each offense and one dollar additional for each fish taken, caught, killed, had in possession or transported in violation of any provision of this act. NON-RESIDENTS MUST EMPLOY GUIDES IN CERTAIN CASES. Section 63. Non-residents of the state shall not enter upon the wild lands of the state and camp or kindle fires thereon while engaged in hunting or fishing, without being in charge of a registered guide, during the months of May, June, July, August, September, October and November, and no registered guide shall, at the same time, guide or be employed by more than five non-resi- dents in hunting. 70 Any such non-resident who enters upon the wild lands of the state and camps or kindles fires thereon, while engaged in hunting or fishing without being in charge of a registered guide, during the months of May, June, July. August, September, October and November, in violation of the provisions herein contained, or any guide who shall guide at the same time, or be employed by, at the same time, more than five non-residents in hunting, shall pay a fine of forty dollars and costs for each offense. ALIEN HUNTING I.ICENSES. Section 65. It shall be unlawful for any unnaturalized foreign-born person who is not a tax-payer upon real estate within this state and who has not resided within the limits of this state for two years continuously prior to the time he desires to hunt, to hunt in any manner, at any time, or pursue, catch, kill or have in posses<^,ion any wild animals or birds, or part or parts thereof, within the limits of this state, unless he is annually licensed so to do as hereinafter provided. The commissioners of inland fisheries and game, upon the application of any un- naturalized foreign-born person who is a resident of any city, town or plantation within the state, and upon the payment of a fee of fifteen dollars may issue to such person a license upon a form to be supplied by them, bearing the name, age and place of residence of the licensee with a description of him as near as may be, authorizing the said licensee to hunt and kill game birds, game or other wild animals on any lands on which said hunting or killing is not forbidden by law, or by written or printed notices posted thereon by the owner, lessee or occupant thereof. Such license shall authorize the hunting or killing and having in possession of game birds, game or other wild animals only in their respective open seasons and in the manner provided by law; it shall not be transferable and shall be exhibited upon demand to any of the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, and to any inland fish and game warden or deputy inland fish and game warden, and to any sheriff, constable, police officer or other officer qualified to serve process. The fees received from said licenses shall annually be paid into the state treasury. Section 66. No unnaturalized, foreign-born person re- quired to be licensed under the provisions of the preceding section shall have in possession, when he is upon the wild 71 lauds or in the woods or fields of the state, any firearm or firearms unless he is licensed as herein provided and all firearms found in his possession in violation of this section shall be forfeit and contraband and shall be seized by any person authorized to enforce the inland fish and game laws. All firearms seized by virtue of this section shall forthwith be forwarded to the commissioners at Augusta by the person seizing the same, and upon con- viction of the person or persons from whom they were seized said firearms shall be sold, and the proceeds from such sale paid to the treasurer of state. Whoever violates any provision of ttiis or the preceding section shall pay a fine of twenty-five dollars and costs, for each offense. GUIDES MUST BE LICENSED. Section 14. No person shall engage in the business of guiding, either for inland fishing or forest or shore hunting, until he has caused his name, age and residence to be recorded in a book kept for that purpose by the commissioners of inland fisheries and game and has pro- cured a certificate from said commissioners, setting forth in substance that he is deemed suitable to act as such guide, under a penalty of fifty dollars and costs for each offense. Each registered guide shall, from time to time, as often as requested by the commissioners, forward, on blanks furnished him by the commissioners, a statement of the number of persons he has guided in inland fishing and forest and shore hunting during the time called for in said statement, the number of days he has been em- ployed as a guid'e, and such other useful information relative to inland fish and game, forest fires, and the preservation of the forests in the localities where he has guided, as the commissioners may deem of importance to the state, under a penalty of fifty dollars for unreasonably or wilfully refusing: to comply with these requirements. Section 15. Such registration shall be as follows : The applicant shall apply in writing or personally to the com- missioners for registration, or to some person designated by the commissioners, setting forth in his application whether he desires to be registered as a general or local guide; and the commissioners shall, as .soon thereafter as may be, after such investigation as they deem advisable, register such person as a guide in such class as they shall deem proper; but said commissioners may refuse to 72 register any applicant wliom they deem unfit to be a g-uide, and may, for cause shown, after due notice and hearing, cancel any registration by them made, and may advance anyone from the local class -to the general class, whenever they shall deem such person qualified to be a general guide. A fee of one dollar shall be paid annually for the registration as herein provided. No person shall receive a certificate as a general guide unless he be at least twenty years of age, of good repute, and friendly to the inland fish and game laws, and will discountenance in all proper ways all violations thereof. He shall be thoroughly competent to traverse the hunting grounds in which he is licensed to guide and shall be skilled in the use, management, and handling of such boats or canoes, on lake, pond or river or other waters, as are used in the territory in which he is authorized to guide, and shall be a safe person under all circumstances to be a guide for inland fishing and forest and shore hunting parties. A person may receive a certificate as a local guide who does not, in the judgment of the com- missioners, possess all -the necessary qualifications of a general guide, yet is deemed suitable to act as such under certain conditions; and guides may be restricted in the territory in which they are permitted to guide. The com- missioners of inland fisheries and game may, in their discretion, license as guides such non-residents as reside in territory contiguous to the state under such conditions as are herein provided for the registration of resident guides; the annual fee for such non-resident guide license shall be twenty dollars. Whenever a guide registered, as provided in this section, is charged with having violated any of the inland fish and game laws, the commissioners may, at their discretion, temporarily suspend his certificate of registration ; and whenever a guide registered, as provided in this section, is convicted of a violation of the inland fish and game laws, said commissioners may, at their discretion, cancel his certificate of registration and strike his name from the list of registered guides ; but such person may there- after be registered again at the discretion of the com- missioners. Any certificate cancelled or suspended by virtue of this section shall be immediately returned to the commissioners, under a penalty of fifty dollars for re- fusal or neglect to comply with this requirement. 73 CERTAIN SPORTING CAMPS MUST BE LICENSED. Section 16. No person shall maintain, occupy or keep a sporting camp, lodge or place of resort for inland hunting or fishing parties within the limits of any of the unor- ganized townships embraced in the Maine Forestry Dis- trict without annually procuring a license therefor of the commissioners of inland fisheries and game and paying therefor a fee of five dollars ; but such license shall not be granted unless the person applying for the same files with his application therefor the written consent of the owner or owners of the land, or his or their agent, upon which such sporting camp, lodge or place of resort for inland fishing and hunting parties is or may be located ; and such licensed persons may purchase for consumption in their sporting camps, lodges or places of resort, deer lawfully killed, but they shall keep a record of all such purchases, of whom purchased and the date of the purchase, and on the fifteenth day of December of each year shall send such record to the commissioners of inland fisheries and game together with a report of the number of resi- dents and non-residents entertained in such camp, and such other useful information relative to the inland fish and game interests as the commissioners may deem of im- portance to the state. The commissioners of inland fish- eries and game may refuse to issue a license or licenses to such person or persons as they deem unsuitable. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall pay a fine of fifty dollars and costs for each offense. TAXIDERMISTS MUST BE LICENSED. Section G7. The commissioners of inlnnd fisheries and game may, upon application and payment of a fee of two dollars by the applicant, issue a license to such persons as taxidermists, who, in their judgment, are skilled in that art, of good reputation, and friendly to the inland fish and game laws of the state; taxidermists licensed as aforesaid may at all times have in their possession, at their places of business, fish and game lawfully caught or killed in open time, for the sole purpose of preparing and mounting the same; and such fish and game, or parts thereof, may be transported to such licensee and retained by him for the purposes aforesaid, under such rules, re- strictions and limitations as shall, from time to time, be made by said commissioners. Such licenses may be re- 74 yoked by said commissioners, at any time after notice and an opportunity for a hearing ; eacli person so licensed sliall, on or before the twemtieth day of December of each yea'r, make a detailed report to said commissioners of all they have done during the year by virtue of such license; every licensee or common carrier violating any provision of this chapter, •r any of the rules, restrictions, or limita- tions made by said commissioners in accordance with the provisions of this section, shall pay a fine of not less than twenty, nor more than fifty dollars and costs for each offense. DEALERS IN DEER SKINS MUST BE I.ICENSED. Section 68. The commissioners of inland fisheries and game may annually issue licenses to residents of this state to buy and sell deer skins, and the heads of deer if not detached from said skins, during the months of January, October, November and December. Such licensee shall keep a record, which shall be open to inspection by the commissioners of inland fisheries and game or any person authorized to -enforce the inland fish and game laws, of all such heads and skins purchased, of whom purchased and the date of each purchase, and shall send such record annually to the comrnissioners of inland fish- eries and game on or before the twentieth day of De- cember of each year. The fee for such license shall be ten dollars, to be paid to the said commissioners. All deer skins and deer heads purchased by virtue of this section shall be transported only under such rules, restrictions and limitations as shall, from time to time, be made by said commissioners. Whoever buys any skins ©r heads of deer without being licensed as herein provided, or who- ever, licensed as aforesaid, neglects to keep the record and forward the same to said commissioners as herein pro- vided, or whoever refuses to exhibit said record upon re- quest to the commissioners of inland fisheries and game or to any person authorized to enforce the inland fish and game laws, shall pay a fine of fifty dollars and costs for each offense. FUR BUYERS MUST BE LICENSED. Section 69. The commissioners of inland fisheries and game may annually issue licenses to residents of this state to engage ui the business of buying otter, sable or fisher skins or the skins of any other fur-bearing animals. 75 Said licensee shall keep a record, which shall be open to inspection by the commissioners of inland fisheries and game or any person authorized to enforce the inland fish and game laws, of all skins purchased, as aforesaid, in an appropriate book furnished them by the said commis- sioners, and shall send such record, under oath, to said commissioners on or before the twentieth day of De- cember of each year. The fee for such license shall be two dollars to be paid to the said commissioners. Who- ever buys any skins of otter, sable or fisher or the skins of any other fur-bearing animals without being licensed as herein provided, or whoever, licensed as aforesaid, neglects to keep the record and forward the same to said com- missioners as herein provided, or whoever refuses to ex- hibit said book for inspection by the commissioners of inland fisheries and game or any person authorized to enforce the inland fish and game laws, shall pay a fine of ten dollars and costs for each oflfense. All skins of fur- bearing animals bought in violation of the provisions of this section shall be forfeit and contraband and shall be seized by any person authorized to enforce the inland fish and game laws and upon conviction of the person or persons from whom they were seized, they shall be sold, and the proceeds from such sale paid to the treasurer of state. MARKETMEN MUST BE I.ICENSED. Section 70. Any marketman or provision dealer having an established place of business in the state, may pur- chase and have in possession at his said place of business not more than three deer, lawfully killed or destroyed, or amy part thereof, at one time, and may sell the same at retail to his local customers, and may sell the heads of such deer to any licensed taxidermist; provided, however, that said marketman or provision dealer, shall annually procure a license of the commissioners of inland fisheries and game to carry on said business of buying and selling deer as aforesaid ; and provided, further, that said market- man shall record in a book kept for that purpose, and open to the inspection of inland fish and game wardens, deputy inland fish and game wardens and the commis- sioners of inland fisheries and game, the name and resi- dence of each person of whom he purchases any deer, and the date of such purchase; and if any marketman or pro- vision dealer shall violate any provision of this section, 76 he shall pay a fine of five hundred dollars, for each offense, and be prohibited for five years thereafter from the benefits of this section. All marketmen or provision dealers licensed as aforesaid shall pay to the commis- sioners of inland fisheries and game in cities and towns of over three thousand inhabitants, five dollars annually, and three dollars in all other places ; said marketmen and provision dealers holding these licenses shall, on the twentieth daj' of each December, make, sign and send to the commissioners, under oath, a statement setting forth in detail the number of deer by them bought, and of whom bought, and the date of each purchase, during the time covered by their licenses ; and whoever fails to make such report shall pay a fine of one hundred dollars and costs. EXPIRATION AND REVOCATION OF LICENSES. Section 71. All licenses or certificates issued by virtue of the provisions of this chapter shall expire with the calendar year in which issued. Section 72. If the holder of any license, certificate or permit, issued in conformity with any provision of this chapter, is charged with having violated or countenanced the violation of any provision of this chapter, the com- missioners may, at their discretion, temporarily suspend such license, certificate or permit ; and whenever the holder of such license, certificate or permit, as provided in this section, is convicted of the violation of any provision of this chapter, said commissioners may, at their dis- cretion, cancel such license, certificate or permit and strike his name from the official record ; but such license, cer- tificate or permit may again be issued at the discretion of the commissioners. Any license, certificate or permit suspended or canceled by virtue of this section shall be immediately returned to the commissioners, under a penalty of fifty dollars for refusal or neglect to comply with this requirement. WARDENS. APPOINTMENT AND DUTIES. Section 10. The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, upon the recommendation of the commis- sioners of inland fisheries and game, may appoint suitable persons as inland fish and game wardens, who shall hold office for a term of three years unless sooner removed, 77 and who shall enforce all laws relating to inland fisheries and game, and all rules and regulations in relation thereto, arrest all violators thereof, and prosecute all offenses against the same; said inland fish and game wardens shall have the same power to serve criminal processes against such offenders, and shall be allowed the same fees as sheriffs, for like services, and they shall have the same right as sheriffs to require aid in executing the duties of their office. They shall, before being qualified to^ dis- charge the duties required by this chapter, give bond to the treasurer of state, in the sum of two thousand dollars, with two sureties, or with a surety company authorized to do business in the state, as surety, approved by the com- missioners of inland fisheries and game, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of their office. In- land fish and game wardens may serve all processes per- taining to the collection of penalties for violation of the inland fish and game laws. Section 11. Sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, police officers and constables are vested with the powers of inland fish and game wardens, and shall receive for their services the same fees. TOWN FISH AND GAME WARDENS. Section 12. Any city, town or plantation in which there is a lake or pond that has been stocked with fish by the state and screened partly by the state and partly by the town or by private subscription, may, at its annual meet ing, elect an inland fish and game warden, with all the powers of other inland fish and game wardens, whose duty it shall be to care for and protect said screen. DEPUTY WARDENS. Section 13. The commissioners of inland fisheries and game may appoint inland fish and game deputy wardens and may revoke such appointment at any time. The ap- pointment and discharge of such deputy wardens shall be in writing, and they shall have the same powers and be" subject to the same laAvs. as inland fish and game wardens appointed by the governor and council. All such appoint- ments shall terminate with the calendar year in which the appointment is made. 78 SEIZURE OF BIRDS, FISH, GAME AND OTHER WILD ANIMALS. Section 81. All birds, fish, game or other wild animals, or parts thereof, hunted, caught, killed, destroyed, bought, sold, carried, transported, or found in possession of any person or corporation, in violation of any provision of this chapter, shall be liable to seizure, and in case of con- viction for such violation, the same shall be forfeited to the state, to be sold for the benefit of the state. Any per- son vi^hose birds, fish, game or other wild animals, or parts thereof, has been seized for violation of any game or fish law, shall have it returned to him on giving to the officer a bond with sufficient sureties, who shall be residents of the state, in double the amount of the fine for such viola- tion, conditioned that, if convicted of such violation, he will, within thirty days thereafter, pay such fine and costs. If he neglects or refuses to give such bond and take the birds, fish, game or other wild animals, or parts thereof, so seized, he shall have no action against the officer for such seizure or for the loss of the birds, fish, game or other wild animals, or parts thereof, seized. SEIZURES MUST BE REPORTED. Section 82. In all cases, the officer making any seizure or sale of birds, fish, game or other wild animals, or parts thereof, shall within ten days thereafter, report all the particulars thereof and an itemized statement of the pro- ceeds, expenses and fees, and the disposition thereof to the commissioners of inland fisheries and game at Augusta. The failure of any person or officer to perform any act, duty, or obligation enjoined upon him by this chapter, shall be deemed a violation thereof. SEARCH AND SEIZURE. Section 83. The commissioners of inland fisheries and game and every inland fish and game warden and deputy inland fish and game warden may arrest, with or without a warrant, any person whom he has reason to believe guilty of a violation of any provision of this chapter and with or without a warrant, may open, enter and examine all buildings, camps, vessels, boats, wagons, cars, stages, tents, and other receptacles and places, and examine all 79 boxes, barrels and packages where he has reason to be- lieve that birds, fish, game or other wild animals, or parts thereof, taken or held in violation of this chapter are to be found, and seize such birds, fish, game or other wild animals, or i>arts thereof, if any be found therein ; but no dwelling-house shall be searched for the above purposes without a warrant aiM then only in the day time, and no sealed railroad car shall be entered for the above purposes without such warrant. Any magistrate may issue war- rants to search, within his jurisdiction, any dwelling- house, in the day time, or any other place at any time for the purposes above set forth, to any inland fish and game commissioner or to any inland fish and game warden or deputy inland fish and game warden, sheriff or any of his deputies ; such warrants shall be issued subject to the re- quirements of section thirteen of chapter one hundred and thirty-four; provided, however, that the inland fish and game commissioners shall, on or before the first day of October of each year, in writing, notify the superintend- ents of all transportation companies doing business within the state, of the names of the inland fish and game ward- ens and deputy inland fish and game wardens by them designated to exercise the right of search of railroad cars as herein provided, and no others shall, except those so designated, be authorized to exercise the powers herein mentioned as to search- of railroad cars. ARREST OF VIOLATORS AND JURISDICTION OF COURTS. Section 84. Any ofiicer authorized to enforce *the inland fish and game laws may, without process, arrest any violator of said laws, and shall with reasonable diligence, cause him to be taken before any trial justice or any municipal or police court, in the county where the offense was committed, or in any adjoining county, for a warrant and trial. Jurisdiction in such cases is hereby granted to all trial justices and all other courts to be exercised in the same manner as if the offense had been committed in that county; and any officer who shall maliciously, or without probable cause, abuse his power in such pro- ceedings shall upon conviction be punished by a ftne of not exceeding one hundred dollars, and costs, or by Im- prisonment not exceeding three months. 80 PENALTY FOR ASSAULTING AN OFFICER. (Sec. 23, Ch. 124, R. S., as am. by Ch. 16, P. L., 1917.) Whoever assaults, intimidates, or in any manner wil- fully obstructs, intimidates or hinders any sheriff, deputy sheriff, coroner, constable, fish warden, inland fish and game warden or police officer while in the lawful dis- charge of his official duties, whether with or without process, shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars. PENALTY FOR FALSELY ASSUMING TO BE AN OFFICER. (Ch. 124, R. S.) Section 25. Whoever falsely assumes to be a justice of the peace, sheriff, deputy sheriff, coroner or constable, or inland fish and game warden or a commissioner of inland fisheries and game, and to act as such, or to require any one to aid him in a matter pertaining to the duty of such office, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one year, or by fine not exceeding four hundred dollars. GAME WARDENS ARE FIRE WARDENS. (Ch. 8, R. S.) Section 34. Fish and game wardens are hereby made state fire wardens; they shall, while in and about the woods, caution all sportsmen of the danger from fires in the woods, and extinguish all fires left burning Dy any one, if within their power; and shall give notice to any and all parties interested when possible, of fires raging and beyond their control, to the end that the same may be controlled and extinguished. JURISDICTION OF COURTS. Section 85. Trial justices, police and municipal courts within their counties shall have, upon complaint, original and concurrent jurisdiction with the supreme judicial court and superior courts in all prosecutions under any inland fish and game law. 81 DISPOSITION OF FINES AND PENALTIES. Section 8(5. All fines and penalties recovered, or money received or collected, under any provision of this chapter, after deducting legal taxable costs, shall be paid forth- with by the person receiving the same to the commis- sioners of inland fisheries and game, at Augusta, Maine, to be paid by them to the treasurer of state. Any officer or other person who shall receive any fine or penalty or any part thereof, for the violation of any inland fish or game law, and shall neglect for more than thirty days to pay the same to the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, as herein provided, shall pay a fine of not less than fifty, nor more than one hundred dollars, and costs of prosecution for each oflfense. SERVICE OF AVARRANTS ON CORPORATIONS. Section 88. In case of violation of any provision of this chapter by a corporation, the warrant may be served by an attested copy, on tlie president, secretary, manager, or any general agent thereof in the county where the action is pending, and upon return of such warrant so served, the corporation shall be deemed in court and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, and any fine imposed may be collected by execution against the property of such cor- poration ; but this section shall not be deemed to exempt any agent or employee from prosecution. DUTIES OF COUNTY ATTORNEYS. Section 89. Each county attorney shall prosecute all violations of this chapter occurring within his county, when such cases may come to his knowledge, or when he may be so requested by the commissioners of inland fish- eries and game, or any officer charged with its enforce- ment; such prosecution shall at all times be subject to the supervision and control of the commissioners. PARTICIPANT IN VIOLATION MUST TESTIFY. Section 90. In any prosecution under this chapter, any participant in a violation thereof, when so requested by the county attorney, commissioners of inland fisheries ana game, or other officer instituting the prosecution, may be compelled to testify as a witness against any other per- son charged with violating the same, but his evidence so given shall not be used against himself in any prosecution for such violation. <; 82 PROSECUTIONS MUST BE REPORTED. Section 91. Every magistrate or the clerk of tbe court before whom any prosecution under this chapter is com- menced, or shall go on appeal, within twenty days after the trial or dismissal thereof, shall report in writing the result thereof and the amount of fines collected, if any, and the disposition thereof, to the commissioners of inland fisheries and game at Augusta. MOTOR BOATS MUST BE MUFFL,ED. (Chapter 23, R. S.) Section 13. All motor boats run or operated in any tidal or other waters within the state, shall be provided, or equipped with proper and suitable mufllers or other devices, which shall effectually deaden sound. Said mufflers shall be used all the time the engine of the motor boat is in operation ; provided that it shall be allowable to cut out said mufflers, in case of boats while entered and competing in boat races held under the auspices of some regularly organized club, between the hours of eight o'clock in the morning and sunset following. Section 14. Any muffling device approved by the United States inspectors having jurisdiction of the tidal waters of this state shall, in case of motor boj^ts run or operated on such tidal or other waters in the state, be deemed to be a compliance with the preceding section, provided such defense shall be set up and proved by the defendant. Section 15. Whoever violates any provision of sections thirteen and fourteen between eight o'clock in the forenoon and eight o'clock at night, shall be punished by a fine of not les4 than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars; whoever violates any provision of said sections between eight o'clock in the afternoon and eight o'clock In the forenoon shall be subject to a double penalty; and any such violation shall be deemed a common nuisance within the meaning of section twelve of this chapter. TO PREVENT COLLISIONS ON INLAND WATERS. (Ch. 59, R. S.) Section 4. Every boat navigating any lake, river, stream, pond or other inland waters of this state, between the hours of sunset and sunrise, whether propelled by 83 steam or any other power, shall show either a bright white light of such a character and so placed as to be visible ou a clear dark night, at least one-half mile in every di- rection, or instead thereof one green light on the star- board side and one red light on the port side, so con- structed as to show an unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of ten points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on the starboard and port sides, respectively, and of such a character as to be visible at least two thousand feet on a clear dark night. Whoever neglects or wilfully refuses to observe the provisions of this section shall be liable to a penalty of ten dollars, and for all damages sustained by any person thereby. TRESPASS I.AW. (Ch. 129, R. S.) Section 20. Whoever wilfully enters on or passes over the garden, orchard, mowing land or other enclosed or cultivated land of another, between the first days of April and December, after being forbidden so to do by the owner or occupant of said land or his agent, either personally or by notice posted conspicuously on the premises, is guilty of trespass, and shall be punished by fine not ex- ceeding twenty dollars, and section twenty-two applies to violations of this section. (Ch. 129, R. S.) Section 22. The owner of such place, or any person employed in its cultivation, or rightfully in the possession thereof, may 'arrest any person found violating the pre- ceding section, and carry him before any magistrate within the county where the arrest is made. CAMP FIRES. (Ch. 8, R. S.) Section 35. Whoever by himself, or by his servant, agent or guide, or as the servant, agent or guide of any other person, shall build a camp, cooking or other fire, or use an abandoned camp, cooking or other fire In or adjacent to any woods in this state, shall, before leaving such fire, totally extinguish the same, and upon failure to do so 84 such person shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars, provided that such fires built upon tlie sea beach in such situation that they cannot .spread into forest land, wood- land, or cultivated lands or meadows, shall not be con- strued as prohibited by this section. One-half of any fine imposed and collected under this section shall be paid to the complainant. Chap. 8, Sec. 36. CAMP FIRES MUST BE TOTALLY EXTINGUISHED BEFORE breaking camp, under penalty of not to exceed one month's imprisonment or one hundred^ dollars fine, or both, as provided by law. Chap. 30, Sec. 15. WHOEVER KINDLES A FIRE, ON LAND NOT HIS OWN without consent of the owner for- feits ten dollars; if such fire spreads and damages the property of others, he forfeits not less than ten, nor more than five hundred dollars; and, in either case, he shall stand committed until fine and costs are paid, or he shall be imprisoned not more than three years. Chap. 30, Sec. 16. WHOEVER WITH INTENT TO IN- JURE ANOTHER, CAUSES A fire to be kindled on his, or another's land, whereby the property of any other per- son is injured or destroyed, shall be fined not less than twenty nor more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not less than three months, nor more than three years. Chap. 30, Sec. 17. WHOEVER FOR A LAWFUL PUR- POSE KINDLES A FIRE ON HIS own land shall do so at a suitable time and in a careful and prudent manner ; and is liable in an action on the case, to any person in- jured by his failure to comply with this provision. Chap. 30, Sec. 18. PERSONS ENGAGED IN DRIVING LUMBER MAY KINDLE fires when necessary, but shall use the utmost caution to prevent them from spreading and doing damage, and if they fail so to^ do, they are subject to all the foregoing liabilities and penalties, as if said privilege had not been allowed. HUNTING ACCIDENTS. (Ch. 120, R. S.j Section 3. Whoever while on a hunting trip, or in the pursuit of wild game or game birds, negligently or care- lessly shoots and wounds, or kills any human being, shall be punished in the discretion of the court, by imprison- ment for not more than ten years, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars. 85 Section 4. County attorneys and sheriffs, in their re- spective counties, shall promptly investigate any alleged violations of the preceding section and prosecute every person accused thereof; for failure so to investigate and prosecute, each of said officers shall be punished by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and shall be removed from office. * THE GOVERNOR MAY DECLARE A CLOSE SEASON DURING A DANGEROUSLY DRY TIME. (Ch. 8, R. S.) Section 38. Whenever, during an open season for the hunting of any kind of game or game birds in this state, it shall appear to the governor that, by reason of drought, the possession of firearms in the forests is liable to cause forest fires, he ma!i% by proclamation suspend the open season and make it a close season for such time as he may designate. Section 39. During the time which shall by such proclamation be made a close season, all provisions of law covering and relating to the close season shall be in force, and a person violating a provision of the same shall be subject to the penalty therein prescribed. Whoever enters upon the wild lands of the state carrying ©r having in his possession any firearms, or shoots during the close season fixed by proclamation of the governor, as provided in the preceding section, any wild animal or bird for the hunting of which there is no close season otherwise pro- vided by law, shall be punished by a fine of one hundred dollars and costs. Section 40. Such proclamation shall be published in such newspapers of the state and posted in such places and in such manner as the governor may order in writing. A copy of such proclamation and order, shall be' filed with the secretary of state. A like attested copy shall be fur- nished to the forest commissioner, who shall attend to the posting and publication of the proclamation. All expense thereof and all the expense of enforcing the provisions of the proclamation shall be paid by said commissioner, after allowance by the state auditor, from any funds In the state treasury not otherwise appropriated. Section 41. If after issuing the proclamation as pro- vided in section thirty-eight, by reason of rains or other- wise, the governor is satisfied that the occasion has passed for the issuance of the proclamation, he may annul it by another proclamation issued as provided for the issuance of the first proclamation. FEDERAL LAWS THE LrACEY ACT. For the information of shippers, etc., we submit here- with Sections 241 to 244 of the Criminal Code, 35 Stat. 1137) which are Sections 2, 3 and 4 of the Lacey Act, so called : "Section 241* The importation into the United States, or any Territory or District thereof, of the mongoose, the so-called 'flying foxes' or fruit bats, the English sparrow, the starling, and such other birds and animals as the Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time declare to be injurious to the interests of agriculture or horti- culture, is hereby prohibited ; and all such birds and animals shall, upon arrival at any port of the United States, be destroyed or returned at the expense of the owner. No person shall import into the United States or into any Territory or District thereof any foreign wild animal or bird, except under special permit from the Secretary of Agriculture: Provided, That nothing In this section shall restrict the importation 'of natural-history specimens for museums or scientific collections, or of cer- tain cage birds, such as domesticated canaries, parrots, or such other birds as the Secretary of Agriculture may designate. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to make regulations for carrying into effect the provisions of this section. "Section 242. It shall be unlawful for any person to deliver to any common carrier for transportation, or for any common carrier to transport from any State, Ter- ritory, or District of the United States, to any other State, Territory, or District thereof, any foreign animals or birds, the importation of which is prohibited, or the dead bodies or parts thereof of any wild animals or birds, where such animals or birds have been killed or shipped in violation of the laws of the State. Territory, or District in which the same were killed, or from which they were shipped : Provided, That nothing herein shall prevent the transportation of any dead birds or animals killed during the season when the same may be lawfully captured, and the export of which is not prohibited by law in the State, Territory, or District in which the same are captured or killed: Provided further, That nothing herein shall prevent the importation, transportation, or sale of birds or bira plumage manul!actured from the feathers of barnyard fowls. "Section 243. All packages containing the dead bodies, or the plumage, or parts thereof, of game animals, or game or other wild birds, when shipped in interstate or foreign commerce, shall be plainly and clearly marked, so that the name and address of the shipper, and the nature of the contents, may be readily ascertained on an In- spection of the outside of such package. "Section 244. For each evasion or violation of any pro- vision of the three sections last preceding, the shipper shall be fined not more than $200: the consignee knowingly receiving such articles so shipped and transported in vio- lation of said sections shall be fined not more than $200; and the carrier knowingly carrying or transporting the same in violation of said sections shall be fined not more than $200." INDEX A PAGE Abbott ponrl, Sumner, Ox. Co., spl. law on 18 Accidents while hunting 84 Advance baiting prohibited 35 Air rifles cannot be sold or given away to children under 14 years of age 50 Alder brook, tr. to Webb's pond, Franklin Co 9 Alder St. and tribs., Frank. Co., spl. law on 9 Alford's lake, Knox. Co., tribs. closed 14 Alien residents, certain, must take out license to hunt 70 Allagash lake. Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 21 Allen brook, trib. to Prestile stream, Aroos. Co., closed 7 Ambejejus lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 21 Ambejejus lake. Pise. Co., taking of white fish in 38 Androscoggin County deer law 45 Androscoggin County, genl. ice fishing law in 4-5 Androscoggin County, special fish laws in 5-6 Androscoggin lake, And. and Ken. Cos., closed to ice fishing 6 Animals, wild (except beaver) and birds destroy- ing property may be killed 55 Annabessacook lake. Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing 13 Anonvmous pond. Cumberland Co., closed to ice fishing ■ 7 Arrest of violators ' 79 Aroostook Co., deer law 45 Aroostook county, genl. ice fishing law in 4-5 Aroostook county, special fish laws in 6-7 Artificial culture of fish, sale and transportation of 43-44 Artificial flies, minnows and insects, use of in fish- ing 31 Artificial lights, us6 of in hunting game and birds prohibited 46 Artificial ponds, protection of 44 Assaulting an officer, penalty for 80 Assuming falsely to be a warden, commissioner or other official 80 Auburn, Lake, And. Co., closed to ice fishing 6 Auburn. Lake. And. Co., tribs. closed 6 Automobile, hunting from prohibited 49 Authority of Commrs. in settlement of cases out of court 43 Aziscohos lake. Ox. Co.. fly flshing only, special limit on, tributaries closed 17-18 B "B" pond. Ox. Co., special law on 18 "B" pond. Ox. Co., tribs. closed 17 Back Bay. Portland, above G. T. Ry. Bridge, un- lawful to hunt birds in 64 Baiting, advance, prohibited , ,.,.., 35 88 PAGE Bait fish, taking of 32 Bar Harbor (Eden) certain lauds in closed to liunting 63 Barker pond, Ox. & Cumb. Co., open to ice fishing 15 Barker pond, Cornville, Som^ Co., open to ice fish- ing 23 Bartlett's Island, Han. Co., hunting prohibited on 03 Basin pond, Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing - 13 Bass, black, closed season on, daily limit, trans., \ &c 4-29-30.31 Beals (or Pickerel) pond, And. Co., tribs. closed.. 6 Bean brook Som. Co., a trib. to Parlin stream, closed 24 Bears, bounty on r)7-5S Bear pond, in Waterford, Ox. Co., open to ice fish- ing 15 Beaver Dam brook (or Whitney brook) tr. to Mat- taAvamkeag river, and tribs., closed 7 Beaver brook, in Holeb, Som. Co., closed 24 Beaver pond, in Denmark, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 15 Beaver ponds. The, Ox. Co., tribs. closed 17 Beaver ponds. Ox. Co., special law on IS Beaver, protection of 52-53 Belgrade lakes, spl. laws on 29-30 Belgrade lakes, law on tribs. to 14 Belgrade stream, closed except from Snow pond to Belgrade Bridge 14 Bennett ponds. The, Piscataquis Co., open to ice fishing 21 Bent's pond, Frank, and Ken. Cos., closed 9-13-14 Berry pond, Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing, tribs. closed 13-14 Bickford pond, in Porter, open to ice fishing 15 Big Benson pond, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing.... 21 Big Huston pond. Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 21 Big Indian pond, St. Albans, Som. Co.. open to ice fishing 24 Big Inlet brook, Frank. Co., closed Big Turner pond. Som. Co., special limit on 20 Big Wood pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 Bigelow pond, Franklin Co., tribs. closed S Bird pond, in Norway, open to ice fishing 15 Birds, game, prohibite Embden pond (Great) tribs. closed 24 Enchanted pond, Som. Co., fly fishing only 26 English sparrows protected 61 Explanations 3 Explosives, use of in taking fish prohibited 31 F Fahi pond, Som. Co., open to Ice fishing 23 Falsely assuming to be a Commissioner, warden or other official 80 Farrington pond, in Lovell, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing ■ 15 Federal law (Lacey act) 86 Federal Migratory Bird laws, Maine laws conform to now — See Note 59 Fifteen Mile stream and tribs,. Ken. & Waldo Cos., closed 14-27 FINES for illegal taking or killing of: Fish .30-31-33-34 Game ' 45-46 F. B. Animals 52,53-54 Birds 61-62 Hunting in closed territory 62-63-6i Fines and penalties, collection and disposition of 81 Firearms, Governor may prohibit use of in dry season 85 Firearms, possession of, by non-resident and alien hunters, unlawful when 67-70-71 Fires, camp, must be wholly extinguished 83-84 Fires, Kindle, non-residents who, must have guide when on wild lands hunting or fishing 60 Fires built on land of another 84 First Buttermilk pond. Pise. Co., open to ice fish- ing 21 Fourth Buttermilk pond, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 21 Fish and Game Wardens are fire-wardens 80 Fish, closed season on under general law 4 Fish, daily limit and number of pounds which may be transported 29-33-34 Fish Hatcheries, how established 42 Fish may be taken under permit of Commissioners for scientific purposes 38 Fish, sale and purchase of certain, prohibited 30-32 Fish, spa-wn, use of in fishing, prohibited 31 Fish, transportation of under tag 34 Fish, transportation of when acompnnied by owner 33 Fish wardens, appointed by towns and cities 77 \ PAGE Fishing for gain or profit prohibited 35 Fishways 40-41 Fish pond, Blacli Brook T., Som. Co., special law on 25 Fish pond, Holeb, special limit on 25 Fish pond, Moxie Gore, Som. Co., spl. limit on 25 Fishing licenses. Non-resident 67-68-69 Five Kezars, The, Oxford Co.. open to ice fishing 16 Flatiron brook, Frank Co., closed 9 Flying pond. Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing 13 Flying pond. Ken. Co., tribs. closed, except portion of Sucker brook 13 Four ponds, Frank. Co., tribs. closed 8 Foxes, digging out of dens prohibited and close time on 53 Franklin County Deer Law 45 Franklin Co., genl. fishing law in 4-5 Franklin Co., special fish laws in 8-9-10-11-12 Fresh pond. North Haven, closed to fishing 14 Frogs, taking of in certain Aroostook county waters restricted to domestic use in family of person taking same 7 Fur bearing animals, protection of 52-53 Fur bearing animals, dealers in skins of, must be licensed .* 74-75 Fur farming, permits to engage in 39 G Galf , use of prohibited 31 Game and birds, live, may be taken for park pur- poses, &c 38-.39 Game birds, daily limit on 59 Game birds defined 61 Game birds, protection and transportation of 59-60 Game birds, sale and purchase of prohibited 60 Game birds, transportation of out of State by non- resident 65-66 Game birds, transportation of out of State by resident, under special tag 60 Game farming, permits to engage in 39 Game, Fish and Birds, Commissioners may take and give permits to take for scientific and park purposes, &c .38-39 Game and Birds, transportation out of State by resident citizens 47-60 Game wardens, I. F. & G., appointment and duties of 76 Game wardens are fire wardens 80 Garland pond. Ox. Co., tribs. closed 17 Garland pond, Pise. Co., spl. law on 22 Geese, protection of 59 General law on protected fish 4 George, Lake, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 George, Lake, Som. Co., tribs. closed 24 Getchell brook, in Anson, Som. Co., closed 25 Getchell brook, Pen. Co., portion of closed 20 Oilman pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 Golden plover, pro. of 59 Goodwin's brook, Som. Co 25 95 . PAGE Governor may declare close time and prohibit taking of firearms into woods in a dry season.. 85 Grand Lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 21 Grand Lake and Grand Lake Stream, Wash. Co., special law on 27-28 Grand Lake, Wash. Co., white perch taken in may be sold 31 Grand Lake, Wash. Co., taking of white fish in 33 Grandeur pond, Denmark, Oxford Co., open to ice fishing 15 Grapnel, use of in fishing, prohibited • 31 Gray squirrel, protection of 51 Great brook, York Co., closed 28 Great Embden pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 23 Great Embden pond, Som. Co., tribs. closed 24 Great Moose Lake, Som. Co., open to ice fishing... 24 Great Moose Lake, Som. Co., tribs. closed, except Main Stream &c., &c 25 Great Pond, Ken. Co., (of Belgrade chain), closed to ice fishing, tribs. closed 13-14 Grindstone pond, Frank. Co., spl. limit on 10 Guides must be licensed 71 Guides, non-residents must employ in certain cases 69 Gull pond, Frank. Co., fly fishing only in, and spl. limit on 10 H Haley pond, Frank. Co., fly flshing only and spl. limit on 10 Haley pond, Fryeburg, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 15 Half Moon (or Jenne) Pond, Ox. and Fk. Cos., open to ice fishing 15 Half Moon pond, in Som. and Pen. Cos., open to ice fishing 24 Hancock Co., deer law 45 Hancock Co., genl. ice fishing law in 4-5 Hancock Co., special fish laws in 12-13 Hares (or rabbits) , protection of 51 Harlow pond, Parkman, Pise. Co., open to ice flsh- ing for pickerel 22 Hatcheries, fish, how established 42 Hawks, not protected 61 Hay den lake, (or Wesserunsett), Som. Co., tribs. closed 25 Hay den lake, (or Wesserunsett), Som. Co., open to ice flshing 24 Heart's pond, in Orland, Han. Co., closed to ice flshing 12 Hebron lake, Monson, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 21 Helen pond, Pierce pond and Black Brook T,, Som. Co., fly fishing only 26 Heron, blue, not protected 61 Higgins stream, Som. Co., open only below first dam 25 High pond, Pierce pond T., Som. Co., fly flshing only, spl. limit and closed during Sept 25-26 Hogan pond, in Oxford Co., open to ice flshing 16 Holland brook, Frank. Co., portion of, closed...... 9 96 \ PAGE Hooper pond, Greeue, Aud. Co., spl. law on, tiibs. closed a Hornpouts, license must be procured before taking with nets, traps, &c ^ 3o Horseshoe pond. Ken. Co., clo.sed to ice lishing 13 Horseshoe pond, Stoneham, Ox, Co., open to ice ttshing IG Horseshoe pond, Lovell, Ox. Co., open to ice hsh- ing IG Horseshoe pond, W, Bowdoin College T., Pise. Co., spl. law on 22 Horseshoe pond, Som. Co., open to ice tishiug 24 Hot Hole pond, tribs., in Orland, closed 13 Hungarian partridge protected 02 Hunter's and trapper's license 54 Hunting accidents 84 Hunting licenses, N. R. and alien 04-70 Hunting prohibited on Kineo point 02 Huston Big, pond, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 21 Ice fishing under general law 4 Identification of game, when transported by resi- dents 47 Importation or introduction of wild animals un- lawful except under permit 62 Indian pond. Greenwood, Ox. Co., tribs. closed 17 Insectivorous birds, nests and eggs protected 61 Introduction of fish and animals prohibited except under permit 35-62 Island pond and tribs., Ox, and Cumb. Cos., closed • 7-8 Isle au Haut, Khox Co., deer protected in 45 Jack lights, use of in hunting deer, moose and caribou, prohibited 46 Jack lights, possession of illegal when 31-32 Jackson pond. Concord, Som. Co., closed 25 Jacksnipe protection of 59 Jav Bird pond, in Hiram, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 10 Jim Brook, Franklin Co.. spl. law on 10 Jimmy, pond, in Litchfield, Ken. Co., tribs. closed 13 Joe Mary Lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 21 Joe Mary Lake, Pise. Co., taking of white fish in 33 Johnson brook, Som. Co., portion of closed 25 John's Pond stream, Frank. Co., closed 9 John's Pond spl. law on 10 Johnson Mountain Township, Som. Co., spl. law on waters in 26 Junkins brook, York Co., closed 28 Junior lake, AVash. Co., white perch taken in may be sold *. 31 Jurisdiction of Courts 80 Jurisdiction of Inland Fish and Game Commission 3-37 97 PAGE Kamankeag brook, tr. to Kennebago stream, closed 9 Kedar brook, Ox. Co., and tribs. closed 17 Kennebago lake, Frank. Co., tribs. to closed 8 Kennebago Lake, spl. laws on 10 Kennebago Lake (Little) spl. laws on 10 Kennebago Stream (Little) spl. laws on 10 Kennebago Stream, spl. laws on 10 Kennebec county, deer law in 45 Kennebec county, genl. ice fishing law in 4-5 Kennebec county, special fish laws in # 13-14 Kennebec river, in Somerset Co., open to ice fish- ing 24 Keyes pond, Sweden, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 Kezar river. Ox. Co., certain tribs. closed 17 Kezar Lake, spl. limit on bass 30 Kezar Pond, Lower, spl. limit on bass 30 Kezars, The Five, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 Kezar, Lower, spl. ice fishing law 17 Kezar lake, spl. ice fishing law, and tribs. closed 17 Kimball pond. Pen. Co., closed to ice fishing 20 Kineo point. Pise. Co., hunting on prohibited 62 King pond, (Middle Kilgore), Som. Co., closed 25 Kingfishers not protected 61 Kingman Brook, Ox. Co., closed 17 Kingsbury pond, Som. and Pise. Cos., open to ice fishing 21-24 Kneeland pond, in Albany, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 Knox Co., deer law in 45 Knox. Co., genl. ice fishing law in 4-5 Knox Co., special tfsh laws in 14 Kokadjo river, No. inlet. Pise. Co 23 Labrador pond in Sumner, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 Lacey Act (Federal law) 86 Lakes and ponds, genl. law on fishing in 4 Lake Auburn, And. Co., closed to ice fishing 6 Lake Auburn, tribs. closed 6 Lake George, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 Lake George, Som. Co., tribs. closed 24 Lake Kezar, Ox. Co., spl. ice fishing law on 17 Lake Maranacook, Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing and tribs. closed 13-14 Lake Hebron, Monson, Pise. Co., open to ice fish- ing • 21 Lake Pennesseewassee. and Little Pennesseewas- see. Ox. Co., tribs. closed ' 17 Lambert Lake. Wash. Co., closed to ice fishing, tribs. closed 27 Landlocked salmon, daily limit 29 Landlocked salmon, length of which may be caught 30 Landlocked salmon, protection of under genl. law 4 7 98 PAGE Landlocked salmon, sale and purchase of pro- hibited ^^30 Landlocked salmon, transportation of dd-i54 Land may be taken for fish hatcheries 42 Lang pond, Som. Co., tribs. closed 25 Lang stream and its tribs., Som. Co., closed...... 25 Large Greenwood pond. Pise. Co., open to ice fishing •. 21 Launches — and all boats except sail or row boats must not be used in hunting ducks or water fowl in inland waters or tidal waters 62 Length of fish which may be taken under gen. law 30 Lermond's pond, Knox. Co., tribs. closed 14 Licenses : Camp Proprietors 73 Dealers in deer skins and heads T4 Dealers in skins of fur-bearing animals 74-75 Guides 71-72 Hunters and trappers 54 Marketmen 75 May be cancelled 76 Non-resident fishermen 67 Non-resident hunters 64 Taxidermists 73 To engage in game or fur-farming 39 To ship fish without accompanying same 34 To ship white perch taken in certain Wash, and Pen . Co. waters , . . . 31 To ship game and birds without accompanying same 48-60 To (for a non-resident) ship 1 pair game birds to his home 66 To (for a resident) take birds out of state 60 To take eels, suckers, hornpouts and yellow perch with traps, &c 33 Unnaturalized, foreign-born, resident hunting... 70 When all expire 76 Lights required on boats 82-83 Lily Pond in Rockport, Knox. Co., closed to ice fishing 14 Limit daily on game birds 59 Limit, daily on protected fish 29 Lincoln county, deer law in 45 Lincoln county, genl. ice fishing law in 4-5 Lincoln county, special fish laws in 15 Lines, number of which may be used 30 Little Benson pond. Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 21 Little Concord pond, Woodstock, Ox. Co., spl. law on 18 Little Dyer's pond, Lincoln Co., closed to ice fishing 15 Little Enchanted Pond, Som. Co.. fly fishing only 26 Little Fish pond, (Alder Br. T.) fly fishing only 25 Little Fish pond, Holeb, Som. Co., spl. limit on 26 Little Indian pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 Little Labrador pond, in Sumner, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 Little Pennessewassee, tribs. closed 17 99 PAGE Little Pond, Denmark, Ox. Co., open to ice fish- ing 16 Little pond, Rome, (of Belgrade Chain), Ken. Co., CLOSED TO ALL FISHING 14 Little Pond, (of Belgrade Chain), Ken. Co., tribs. closed 13-14 Little Pond, Fryeburg, Ox. Co., open to ice fish- ing 16 Little river, and tribs., Old Orchard, York county, spl. law on perch in 28 Little Sebago Lake, Cumb. Co., closed to ice fishing 7 Little Turner pond, Som. Co., spl. limit on 26 Littlefield pond, York Co., closed to all fishing 28 Live bait , 32 Live fish and game, transportation of beyond limits of State 39 Lobster lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 21 Long pond, Livermore, And. Co., tribs. closed 6 Long pond, Cumb. Co., special lavs^ on 4 Long pond, Denmark, Ox. Co., open to ice fi.sh- ing 16 Long pond, Frank. Co., tribs. closed 8 Long pond, in Porter, Ox. Co., open to ice fish- ing 16 Long pond, Ken. Co., (of Belgrade chain) closed to ice fishing, tribs. closed 13-14 liong pond, Oxford Co., spl. law on 18 Long Pond, Long Pond PI., Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 Long Pond PI., Som. Co., spl. law on waters in 26 Long Pond stream, Pise. Co., closed 22 Long Pond stream. Pise. Co., a trib. to, closed 22 Long Pond, Waterford, Ox. Co., open to ice fish- ing 16 Long Pond, York Co., closed to ice fishing 28 Loons not protected 61 Loon lake, Rangeley and Dallas PI., Frank Co., fly fishing and trolling only and spl. limit on 10 Loupcervier, bounty on 55 Lovejoy pond. Ken. Co., spl. ice fishing law and spl. limit on 13-14 Lovewell's pond, Fryeburg, Oxford Co., open to ice fishing 16 Lowell brook. Pen, Co., closed 20 Lower Cold Stream pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 23 Lower Enchantec^ T., Som. Co., spl. law on waters in 26 Lower Kezar pond, Ox. Co., spl. ice fishing law on 17 Lower Kimball pond, Fryeburg, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 Lower Wilson pond. Pise. Co., tribs. closed 22 Lumber camp cannot use more than 2 deer in one season 48 Lumbert lake. Pen. Co., tribs. to closed 20 Lunksoos pond. Pen. Co., closed to ice fishing 20 Lynx, Canada, bounty on 55 • 100 PAGE Machias River, eel permits in 33 Magalloway river, Ox. Co., certain tribs, closed, fly fishing only and spl. limit on portion of 17-18 Main Stream, Somerset county, open to fishing 25 Mapleton Branch of Presque Isle stream, Aroos. Co 7 Maranacook lake. Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing, tribs. closed 13-14 Marketmen and provision dealers' licenses to sell deer meat 75 Marshall brook, a tr. to Prestile St., Aroos. Co., closed 7 Marshall pond, Ox. Co., tr. closed 17 Martin (or Long) pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 Massachusetts Gore, spl. law on waters in 12 May field pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 McCaslin brook, in Penobscot, Han. Co., closed.. 13 McGraw Pond, Ken. Co., (of Belgrade Chain), closed to ice fishing, tribs. closed 13-14 Mclntyre brook, York Co., closed 28 McKenney pond, Holeb, Som Co., spl. limit on... 26 McWain pond, Waterford, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 Meadow Brook and tribs., in Stockton Springs and Prospect, Waldo Co., closed 27 Megunticook lake, Knox and Waldo Cos., use of firearms unlawful around and upon, except on rifle range 64 Messalonskee lake. Ken. Co., see Snow pond Messabesic pond, York Co., closed to ice fishing 28 Messer Pond, Penob. Co., closed to ice fishing. ... 20 Metalluc brook, tr. to Upper Richardson lake, spl. law at mouth of 18 Migratory Bird Law (Federal) See note regard- ing Federal law on page 59 Middle Branch pond, York County, closed to ice fishing 28 Middle Pond in Hiram, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 Middle Kilgore (or King) Pond, Som, Co., closed 25 Mill waste must not be thrown into certain waters 35-36-37 Millinocket lake. Pise. Co.. open to ice fishing 21 Millinocket lake, taking of white fish in 33 Mink (and other animals and birds) may be destroyed by Commrs., when 39 Minnows, general law on 32 Mirror lake & tribs.. Ken, and Frank. Cos., closed 8-9 Misery stream, Som. county, closed 25 Moose pond, Denmark, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 Moose pond, Paris, Oxford Co., open to ice fishing 16 Moose pond, Waterford, Oxford Co., open to ice fishing 16 Moose protected until 1919 45 Moose river, Som. Co., spl. law on portion of 4 Moosehead lake, Som. and Pise. Cos., open to ice fishing 21-24 101 PAGE Moosehead lake, tribs. to closed, except Moose river 22 Moose Hill pond, E. Livermore, And. Co., closed 6 Mooseborn Stream, in Baring, Wasb. Co., portion of closed : 27 Mooselookmeguntic lake, spl. law on and tribs. closed 8-17 Morrill pond, Som. Co., open to ice fisbing 24 Mosquito stream, Som. Co.,' closed 25 Motor boats cannot be used in bunting sea birds, duck or water-fowl in inland or tidal waters 62 Motor boats must be muflled 82 Mount Desert Island, protection of deer on 45 Mud Hen (bittern) not protected 61 Mud pond, and tribs.. Ken. and Fk. Cos., closed 8-9 Mud pond, Paris, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 Mud pond. Ken. and Sagadahoc counties, closed to ice fishing 1.3-2:1 Mud Pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 Mud Pond, Tim Pond Town, Frank. Co., tribs. to, closed, spl. law on pond 8-11 MuflJers required on motor boats in certain cases 82 Munsungun lake. Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 21 Muskrat, protection of 53 •Muskrats, taking of in Lower Kezar pond and ad- jacent waters prohibited 53 N. Nahmakanta lake. Pise. Co., open to ice fishing. . . 22 Narraguagus lake, Han. Co., closed to ice fishing 12 Narrows pond. Ken. Co.. closed to ice fishing 13 Nests of wild birds protected 61 Nets cannot be used in taking birds 61 Net, (other than dip net) possession of illegal when 31-32 Nicatous lake, Han, Co., spl. law on outlet of 13 Nichols pond, the outlet of, Som. Co., closed 24 Night hunting prohibited 49 Noiseless firearms, use of prohibited 49-50 Non-resident guides, licensing of certain 72 Non-resident hunting licenses 64-65 Non-resident fishing licenses 67-68-69 Non-residents must employ guides in certain cases 69 Non-residents, transportation of game by 65-66 Non-residents, transportation of fish by 67-68 North Branch brook and tribs., Cumb. Co., closed 7 North Branch of Presque Isle Stream, Aroos Co., 7 No. Br. Dead River, Frank. Co., spl. law on por- tion of 11 North Pond, Frank. Co., tribs. closed 9 North Pond, Woodstock, Ox. Co., open to ice Qsh- Ing 16 North Pond, Woodstock, Ox. Co., tribs. closed 17 North Pond, Ken. Co., (of Belgrade Chain) closed to ice fishing, tribs. closed 13-14 North Pond, Norway, open to ice fishing 16 North Twin lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 22 North Twin lake. Pise. Co.. white fish in 33 Norton pond, Knox Co., tribs. closed 14 102 PAGE Norton brook, Frank. Co., closed 9 Noyes pond, Han. Co., closed to ice fishing 12 Number of game birds which may be taken, had in possession or transported. in one day 59-60 Number of lines which may be used 30 O Oaks pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 O'Day (or Horseshoe) pond, Som. Co., fly fishing only 26 Officers may arrest without warrant 78-79 "Open season" defined 3 Otter pond, Bridgton, Cumb. Co., closed 7-8 Otter brook, Frank. Co., closed 9 Overset pond. Ox. Co., spl. limit on 19 Owls, not protected 61 Ox Bow pond. Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing 13 Oxford County, deer law •. . 45 Oxford County, genl. ice fishing law in 4-5 Oxford County, special fish laws in 15-16-17-18-19 P Palmer brook, trib. to Prestile stream, Aroos. Co., closed 7 Palmer pond, Som, Co., open to ice fishing 24 Panther pond, Cumb. Co., closed to ice fishing 7 Pappose Pond, Waterford, open to ice fishing.... 16 Park purposes, animals and birds may be taken for, when 39 Parker pond, Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing 13 Parker pond, Ken. Co., tribs. closed 14 Parkis pond, and tribs., Frank, and Ken. Cos., closed 8-9 Parlin pond, Som. Co., tribs. closed 25 Parlin Pond T., Som. Co., spl. law on waters in 26 Parlin stream, Som, Co., spl, law on portion of. . , 26 Parmachenee lake, Ox. Co., fly fishing only, tribs. closed ^. 17-18 Participant in violation must testify 'when 81 Partridge, Hungarian, protected 62 Partridge (Ruffed Grouse) protection of and daily limit on, and transportation of 59-60 Partridge, transportation of out of State by citi- zens of Maine under license tag 60 Passadumkeag river (stream). Pen. and Han. Cos. portion of closed to ice fishing 19 Pattee's pond, Ken. Co., tr. closed 14 Peabody pond, in Naples and Sebago, Cumb. Co., closed to ice fishing 7 Pemadumcook lake. Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 22 Pemadumcook lake. Pise. Co., taking of white fish in 33 Penalties and fines, how recovered and disposition of . 81 Penalties for destroying notices posted by Com- missioners 38 Penalty for fishing in artificial ponds maintained by virtue of statutory permit 44 103 PAGE Penalty for injuring or destroying screen 42 Penalty for falsely assuming to be an oflBcer 80 Penalty for non-resident hunting or fishing with- out license 67-69 Penalty for illegal killing of fish, game, birds and fur bearing animals — See "Fines" Penalty for guiding without a license 71-72 Penalty for violating Rules and Regulations of Commissioners 38 Pennesseewassee Lake, Ox. Co., tribs. closed, spl. law on outlet 17 Pennessewassee, Little, Ox. Co., tribs. closed 17 Penobscot Co., deer law 45 Penobscot Co., genl. ice fishing law in 4-5 Penobscot Co., special fishing laws in 19-20-21 Penobscot lake, Som. Co., spl. limit on 26 Perch, white, accidentally caught, may be kept when 4 Perch, white, daily limit on, and length of which may be caught 29-80 Perch, white, protection of under gen. law 4 Perch, white, sale and purchase of 30-31 Perch, white, sale of. taken in certain Avaters in Wash, and Pen. Cos 31 Perch, white, transportation of 34 Permits may be revoked when 76 Permits to take fish, game and birds for park, scientific, advertising purposes, &c 38-39 Pheasant (all species except ruffed grouse) pro- tected 62 Pickerel, genl. ice fishing law on 5 Pickerel pond. Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 Pickerel (or Reals) pond, Turner, And. Co., tribs. closed 6 Pickerel pond, in Denmark, Ox. Co., tribs. closed 17 Piper pond. Pise. Co.. open to ice fishing 22 Piscataquis County deer law 45 Pise. Co., genl. ice fishing law in 4-5 Pise. Co., spl. fish laws in 21-22-23 Plains pond, in Porter, Ox. Co.. open to ice fishing 16 Plantations may elect Inland Fish and Game wardens when 77 Pleasant pond, Denmark and Rrownfield, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 Pleasant pond, Ken. and Sag. Cos., closed to ice fishing 13-23 Pleasant pond, in Sumner, Ox. Co., open to Ice fishing 16 Plover, protection of, daily limit, &c 59-60 Plug fishing laws on Rangelev Lake and on Snow Pond of Relgrade Chain 29 Plummer brook. Ox. Co., closed 17 Pocassett lake. Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing 13 Poisoning of animals prohibited 55 Poisonous substance, fish must not be killed with .31 Police officers are wardens 77 Pokumkus lake (or Compass lake), Wash""co' taking of white fish in . .............. . . .' 19 Jnn^'^^'^J^"?^''^^' o^'- Co.; ■ spi.' law "on". ; : : : : : : : : ; • ^^' Ponds and lakes, genl. law on fishing in 4 • 104 Possession of firearms and fishing tackle by non- residents unlawful, when 67-69 Prestile stream, tribs, to, Aroos, Co., closed....'.*."* 7 Presque Isle Stream, portion of and certain triibs to, Aroos. Co., closed .. 6 Prohibited methods of fishing ,[ 31 Prohibited methods of hunting " 46-61 Proctor pond, Albany and Stoneham, Ox. Co!,* opeii to ice fishing Ig Prosecutions and seizures must be reported'.".*.*.*.*.". 78-82 Front's Neck, Cumb. Co., hunting prohibited on 63 lurchase and sale of certain fish prohibited 30 Quimby pond, Frank. Co., fly fishing only and spl. limit on 11 R Rabbits (or hares), protection of 51 Raccoons, protection of 53 Ragged lake. Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 22 Rangeley chain of lakes, spl. laws on 29 Rangeley lake, plug fishing prohibited 29 Rangeley lake, tribs. to closed 8 Rangeley stream, spl. law on portion of. 11 Rapid river, spl. law on 19 Rattlesnake pond, in Brownfield, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 10 Rattlesnake pond. Ox. Co., tribs. closed 17 Reports of prosecutions and seizures must be made 78-82 Resident can take but one deer out of State in one season 47 Resident must buy tag in order to take game birds out of State 60 Resident must identify shipment of deer unless tagged with special shipping tags 47-48 Richardson lake, special law on 29 Richardson lakes. Upper and Lower, Ox. Co., tribs. closed 17 Richardson ponds, E. and W., Ox. Co., spl. laws on 19 Richardson ponds, E. and W., Ox. Co., tribs. closed 17-18 Richmond's Island in Cape Elizabeth, Cumb. Co., hunting on prohibited 63 Riparian proprietors 43-44 Ripley (or Rogers) pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 Rivers, general law on fishing in 4 Roach river (see Kokadjo) Ross lake, Littleton, Aroos. Co., closed to ice fishing Q Ross pond, Rangeley, spl. law on 11 Round Mt. Lake, Frank. Co.. spl. law on 11 Round pond, Frank. Co., tribs. closed 8 Round pond and the Logans or Lagoons on inlets, Frank. Co., fly fishing only and spl. limit on 11 Round pond, in Greenwood, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 105 PAGE Round pond, in Greenwood, Ox. Co., tribs. closed- 17 Round pond, Som. Co., open to ice flsliing 24 Round pond, Livermore, And. Co., tribs. closed... 6 Rowell pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 Roxbury pond, in Roxbury and Byron, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 Ruffed Grouse, (partridge) protection of, daily limit, and transportation of 59-60 Rules and Regulations may be adopted by Com- missioners when 37-38 Rum pond, Greenville, Pise. Co., spl. law on 22 S Sabbathday lake, Cumb. Co., closed to ice fishing 7 Saddleback lake, Frank. Co., tribs. closed 8 Saddleback lake, (or Dead River pond), Frank. Co., spl. law on 11 Saddleback Mountain ponds, Frank. Co., fly fishing only and spl. limit on 11 Sagadahoc Co., deer law in 45 Sagadahoc Co., ice fishing law in and spl. laAv on Swan Island 4-5-23 Sale and purchase of certain fish prohibited 30-32 Sale of seized fish, game and birds 78 Salt must not be used to entice deer 46 Sand pond, Denmark, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 Sandy pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 Sandy river pond. Frank. Co., tribs. closed 8 Sawdust and other mill waste must not be thrown into certain waters 35-36 Sawyer's brook, in Fryeburg, Ox. and Cumb. Cos., closed .' 7 Schoodic lake, Pise, Co., open to ice fishing 22 Scotch Island, Wash. Co., deer protected on. 45 Screening of lakes, Commissioners may authorize 42 Search and seizure of fish, game and birds and protected wild animals 78-79 Search warrants 78-79 Sebago Lake, Little, Cumb. Co., closed to ice fishing 7 Sebago lake, spl. law on 4 Sebago lake, tribs. to, closed (except spl. law on Songo river), &c 7-8 Sebasticook lake, Pen. Co., spl. perch law on and spl. law on certain tribs 20-21 Sebasticook river. Pen. Co., portion of closed 20 Sebec lake. Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 22 Sebec lake, a trib. to, spl. law on 22 Seboeis lake, Pise. Co., open to Ice fishing 22 Secoad lake. Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 22 Seine, use of in fishing prohibited 31 Seized game, birds and fish, disposition of 78 Seizure of birds, fish and game and wild animals 78-79 Seizures must be reported 78 Service of warrants on corporations 81 Set lines, use of prohibited, except when fishing through ice 31 Settlement of cases out of court 43 10'6 PAGE Seven Mile brook, in Ox. A Frank. Cos., portion of and tribs. closed 9 Seven Ponds Township, spl. law on waters in 12 Seven Pond stream, Fk. Co., spl. limit on 11 Shagg pond. Ox. Co., spl. law on and tribs, closed 17-19 Shaw lake, Pen. Co., a trib. to, closed 20 Shell pond. Stow and Stoneham, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing- 16 Sheriffs and deputies are wardens 77 Ship Pond stream, Pise. Co., and tribs 22 Shore birds, all, protected except black-breasted and golden plover, Wilson or Jacksnipe, wood- cock and greater and lesser yellowlegs 59 Sibley pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 Silencers on firearms cannot be used 49-50 Slab City pond, Lovell, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 Sleepy Hollow brook, Waldo Co., spl. law on 27 Sleepy Hollow brook, tribs. closed 27 Smelt brook, tr. to Cold. St. pond, Enfield, Pen. Co., closed 20 Smelts taken in Sebago Lake waters 32 Smelts taken in Swan lake 32 Smelts, genl. law on 32-33 Smith pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 Snares, use of in hunting prohibited 46-47-61 Snipe, protection of, daily limit, &c 59-60 Snow pond, Ken. Co. (of Belgrade Chain) closed to ice fishing, tribs. closed except portion of Bel- grade St 13-14 Snow pond. Ken. Co., plug fishing in for trout and land-locked salmon unlawful 29 Somerset county deer law 45 Somerset county, genl. ice fishing law in 4-5 Somerset county, special fish laws in 23-34-25-26 Song birds protected 61 Songo pond, in Albany, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 tribs. closed 17 Songo river, Cumb. Co 8 Sourdnahunk lake, Pise. Co., spl. law on 22 Southeast pond. Ox. and Cumb. Cos., open to ice fishing 16 South pond in Greenwood, Ox. Co., tribs. closed 17 South Twin Lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 22 South Twin Lake, Pise. Co., taking of white fish in 33 Sparrows, English, not protected 61 Spawn fish, use of for bait prohibited. .^ 31 Spear, use of in fishing prohibited when 31 Spear, possession of unlawful when 32 Spectacle ponds, in Porter, The Two, opea to ice fishing 16 Sporting camps in Me. Forestry Dist. unor. town- ships, must be licensed 73 Spurwink, certain lands in closed to hunting 63 Squawpan lake, Aroos. Co., inlet st. closed and part of E. Br. of said outlet 7 Squirrels, gray, protection of 51 Stafford pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 Stanley ponds. The Three, in Hiram and Porter, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 107 PAGE Staples pond, and its tribs., Frank Co., closed 8-9 Starbird pond, Som, Co., open to ice fishing 2-1 Stearns pond, Sweden, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 Stetson Pond, Frank. Co., spl. law on waters in... 12 Stetson Pond, Pen. Co., spl. law on 20 Stonington, Hancock Co., deer protected in 45 Stratton brook and tribs., Fk. Co., spl. law on 11 Streams, general law on fishing in 4 Stupefying or poisonous substances must not be used in taking fish 31 Succor brook, Orland, Han. Co., spl. law on 1.3 Sucker brook, Ken. Co 13 Suckers, license must be procured before taking with trap or nets 33 Suckers, taking of with spear during April and May 33 Sunday is closed time on all wild birds and wild animals 48 Sunkhaze stream and tribs.. Pen. and Hancock Cos.. spl. law on 20 Swan Island, Sag. Co., fishing and hunting on por- tion of prohibited 23-45 Swan Island deer hunting on prohibited 45 Swans protected 59 T Tag for transporting certain fish, game and birds without accompanying same 34-48-60 Tag, resident may purchase to take game birds out of State 60 Taxidermist's license 73 Taylor pond, And. Co., tribs. closed 6 Tea brook, Frank. Co., spl. law on 11 Telos lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 22 Temple pond, Moscow, Som. Co., closed 25 Ten Thousand Acre pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 Thomas pond, Cumb. Co., closed to ice fishing 7 Thompson pond (And., Cumb. and Ox. Cos.) spl. law on 4 Tilton pond, Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing 13 Tim pond, Frank. Co., spl. law on 11 Tim pond, Fiank. Co., tribs. closed 9 Tim brook, Frank. Co., spl. law on 12 Togue, protection of, daily limit, transportation of. sale and purchase of 4-29-30-33-34 Towns may elect I. F. & G. wardens when 77 Townsend brook, And. Co 6 Transportation of deer by residents 47 Transportation of fish, game and birds, when ac- companied by owner, also under special tag without owner accompanying same 33-47-60 Trafton pond, in Hiram and Porter, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 Traps cannot be used for taking game or birds... 46-47-61 Trap, use of in fishing prohibited 31 Trapping law s 53-54-55 Traps must be marked, may be seized when not marked 54 108 PAGE Traps must not be set within 25 feet of a muskrat house 53-55 Trappers must visit traps 55 Trawl, unlawful possession of when 32 Trawl, use of in fishing prohibited 31 Trespass law 83 Tributaries defined 3 Trout pond, Frank. Co., spl. law on 12 Trout, length of which may be taken 30 Trout number of which may be taken in one day 29 Trout, protection of under general law and trans- portation of 4-33-34 Trout, sale and purchase of prohibited 30 Trueworthy brook, trib. to Prestile stream, Aroos. Co., closed 7 Tufts pond, Frank. Co., spl. law on, tribs. to and portion of outlet closed 9-12 Turtle Pond brook, in Penobscot, Han. Co., closed 13 Turtle lake, Hancock Co., closed to ice fishing and tribs. closed 12-13 Turner (Big) ponds, Som. Co., spl. limit on 26 Twitchell pond. Ox. Co., tribs. to closed 17 Two Spec pond, Waterford, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing • 16 U Unnaturalized foreiga-born residents, certain must have hunting license 70 Upper Cold Stream tract, Som. Co., spl. law on waters in 26 Upper Dam, spl. law on river and on pools below dam at 19 Upper Enchanted T., Som. Co., spl, law on waters in 26 Upper Patten Pond brook, Hancock Co., closed 13 Upper Wilson pond. Pise. Co., tribs. closed 22 V Varnum pond, Franklin county, tribs. closed 9 Vaughan stream. Pise. Co., closed 22 Violators, arrest of 78-79 Violette brook, Van Buren, Aroos. Co., closed above Hammond's Mill 7 Virginia lake, Stoneham, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 W Waldo county, deer law in 45 Waldo county, genl. ice fishing law in 4-5 Waldo county, special fish laws in 26-27 Wallace brook, Pen. Co., closed 20 Walton's Mill pond, in Farmington, open to ice fishing 8 Wardens, I. F. & G., appointment and duties of. . . 76 Wardens, fire, I. F. & G. Wardens are 80 Wardens, deputy, appointment and duties of 77 Ward's brook and Ward's pond, Ox. Co., spl. laws on . , 19 10'9 PAGE Ware pond, Pen. Co., closed to ice fishing 19 Warrants, service of, on corporations 81 Warrants, wardens may arrest without 78-79 Washington county, deer law in 45 Washington county, genl. ice fishing law in 4^5 Washington county, spl. fish laws in 27-28 Washington county, white perch taken in certain waters in may be sold 31 Weapons, concealed, dangerous or deadly, cannot be carried without permit 50 Webb pond, Frank. Co., tribs. to, except portion of Alder brook closed 9 Webber pond, in Sweden, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 Webster lake. Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 22 Weeks pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 Weir, use of in fishing prohibited , 31 Wesserunsett (or Hayden) lake, Som, Co., open to ice fishing 24 Wesserunsett (or Hayden) lake tribs. closed 25 West outlet of Moosehead lake, portion of closed 25 Whetstone brook, tr. to Kennebago stream, Frank, Co., closed 9 Whetstone pond. Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 22 White fish, general law on 32-33 White's pond, Han. Co., tribs. closed 13 White perch (see perch) Whitney brook, and tribs., Island Falls, Aroos. Co., closed 7 Whitney pond, in Oxford, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 Wilber brook, Frank, Co,, closed 9 Wild animals (except beaver) and wild birds found destroying property may be killed,,., 55 Wild birds, other than game birds, protection of and nests and eggs protected 61 Wild hares (or rabbits) 51 Wilson brook, Ken. Co., and tribs., closed 14 Wilson lake, Frank Co., a trib. to, closed 9 Wilson lake. Ken. Co.. closed to ice fishing.... 13 Wilson snipe, protection of, daily limit, &c 59-60 Wilson Stream, Pise. Co., portion of closed 22. Woodcock, protection of, daily limit 59-60 Woodcock, transportation of by residents and non- residents under license tag 60-65-66 Woodduck protected 59 Worthley pond, in Peru, tribs. closed 18 Wyman pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 T Yellow legs — protection of 59-60 Yellow perch, must procure license before taking with traps or nets 33 York county, deer law in 45 York county, genl. ice fishing law in 4-5 York county, special fish laws in 28 York pond, York county, closed to all fishing . . 28 Young's pond, Som. Co., fly fishing only 26 • Gaylord Bros. Makers Syracuse, N. Y PAT.JAN.21,190a -u-'^^-:''--f'XJ:''::^M%tm LIBRARY OF CONGRESS llllllllllllli'll!] 002 899 449 7