Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-03-30

shall kill on his own premises any robin during the
period when summer fruits are ripening.
Sec. 4. No person shall at any time maliciously
take or destroy the nest, eggs, unied ged young
Of any wild bird of any kind, excepting crows,
hawks and owls, or take any eggs or young from
such nest, except for the purpose of preserving the
same as a specimen or of rearing said young alive,
under penalty of not less than one nor more than
ten dollars for each nest, egg or young so taken or
destroyed
SEC. ). All penalties imposed under the provis-
ions of this act may be recovered with costs of suit
by any person or persons in his or their own name,
before any municipal or police court or trial justice
in the county where the Ofiense is committed or the
defendant resides such penalties may be recovered
by an action in the superior court Of the county OF
Cumberland or in the supreme court of this state,
which actions shall be governed by the same rules
as other actions in said courts, except that upon
recovery by the plaintiff plaintiffs in such suit in
said courts, full costs shall be allowed to such
plaintiff plaintiffs, without regard to the amount
of such recovery; and any judge Of the supreme
court superior court Of Cumberland county, or of
any police or municipal court and any trial Justice,
IL authorized upon receiving sufficient security for
costs on the part of the complainant, and sufficient
proof by affidavit Of the violation of any of the pro-
visions Of this act by any person being temporarily
within his jurisdiction. but not residing therein,
by any person whose name and residence are un-
known to the complainant to issue his warrant and
have such offender committed or held to bail to
swer the charge against him. Any penalties when
collected, shall he paid by the court before which
conviction shall be had, one halt to the overseers
town in which conviction is had and the remain
der to the prosecutor. On the non-payment of the
penalty, the defendant shall be committed to the
common Jail of the county for period of not less
than i've days, and at the rate of one day for each
dollar of the amount of the judgment, where the
sum is over five dollars in amount; and it shall be
the duty of any county attorney in this state and
he is hereby required to commence actions for the
recovery of the penalties allowed and imposed in
this act upon receiving proper Information; and in
all actions brought by such county attorney, one
half of the penalty recovered and collected shall he
paid to the person giving information on which the
action is brought. and the other half to the over
of the poor for the of the poor of the city
or town in which conviction is had; this clause,
however, not to preclude any person from bringing
suit to or enforce any OF the penalties
ed in this act without the aid Intervention of any
county attorney.
SEC. 6. This act shall not apply to any person
who shall kill any bird take any egg for the pur-
pose Of having the game set up specimen.
SEC. g. Sections sixteen, seventeen and eighteen
Of chapter thirty of the revised statutes of eighteen
hundred and seventy one, and chapter ninety of
the public laws OF eighteen hundred and seventy
three are hereby repealed
(Approyed March ,, I3.4.)