Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-02-09

visions of this act.
SEC. 8, The term of office of all fish
and game wardens shall expire on the first
| Tuesday OF March in each year. All ap-
| pointments OF fish and game wardeNs
shall be in writing, and shall be filed in
the Office of the town clerk Of the town
where sa..- .---.rden resides; and it shall
be the duty of the tow2 clerk imme-
diately upon the appointment or removal
by the selectmen of any fish and game
warden to notify one of the fish and game
commissioners thereof in writing.
SEC. 10. The appointments Of fish and
game wardens shall be worded substan-
TALLY as follows;
selectmen of the town of Vermont, or
fish and game commissioners, hereby eonsti-
tute ana appoint.
resident in said town Of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
a fish and game warden within and for the
State Of Vermont, to hold office for the pc
riod ending on the first Tuesday of March
next, unless before that date removed.
Dated this. ..........dayo f.............lS....
selectmen Of. .........
OF fish and game commissioners.
Revocation of the appointment Of q
fish and game warden shall be made by
giving notice of such revocation III writ
ing to the warden whose appointment is
revoked, and fling copy of such notice
with the town clerk of the town where
such warden resides
SEC. II. Fish and game wardens may
arrest on view in any place of the state a
person found violating any of the pro-
provisions of this act, and retain him in
custody at the expense of the state until
opportunity is given to complaining or
informing officer to institute prosecu-
ton against such offender; and fish and
game warden making such arrest shall
Immediately give notice to the town
grand juror OF the town, or the states at
torney of the county in which such Of
Tense was committed, or in case the Of
Tense was committed in An unorganized
town or gore, to the town grand juror of
an adjoining town or the states attorney
for the county, and explain the nature
and circumstances of the offense charged;
and such complaining or informing officer
shall forthwith file complaint or in
formation against such offender and
prosecute the same.
SEC. 10. Whenever it is brought TO the
notice of any fish and game warden that
there has been violation in his town of
any of the provisions of this act, it shall
be his duty to inquire at once into said
matter, and he may inquire into any vio-
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place in the State; and if, upon such in
quiry, it shall appear to him that there
has been violation of any of the provi-
sions of this act, he shall thereupon state
the nature and the circumstances of the
offense to the grand juror of the town,
or the States attorney of the county in
which the offense is believed to have been
committed, whose duty it shall be to
prosecute such offender
SEC. 13. In all prosecutions instituted
in the manner set forth in the two pre-
ceding sections, the fish and game war
den shall be entitled to one-half the pen
atty or fine by law imposed for the COM
mission of such offense proved, regardless
of the fact that he does not sign the
complaint or prosecution, and The re-
mainder of the penalty or fine shall 60 to
the State.
SEC. IA. Any fish and game warden
may cause to be opened, or in case the
party having the custody or possession
thereof refuse, may himself open any par
Gel, chest, box, trunk, barrel or other re-
ceptacle found in any wagon, cart. sled,
car or other vehicle of transportation, or
on any wharf, railroad platform, or in any
storehouse Of ally railroad, steamboat or
transportation company, or in any other
paw
ate dependencies thereof of the person or
party having possession, control or author
ity over such parcel, chest, box, trunk,
barrel or other receptacle, in which he has
reason to suspect that black bass, pike,
wall-eyed pike, shad, or other fish lille
gally caught in the waters of this state are
confined, and may seize any black bass,
pike, wall-eyed pike shad or other fish by
him so discovered; and if said fish and
game warden is satisfied that the same
were caught in any of the waters of this
state in violation of law, he may sell the
same and pay the proceeds arising from
such sale to the county clerk of the county
in which such seizure is made, one-half to
go to the person making such seizure and
sale and one-half to the stale.
Fish.
SEC Is. "A person who takes or catches
a trout, land-locked salmon, salmon trout,
or longe. in any of the waters of this
State, or has in his possession any such
fish captured in this State between the
first day of September in one year and
the first day of May in the next year, shall
be fined not more than ten dollars for
each fish so taken, caught or possessed
SEC. 16. Any persons who takes or
catches from any of the water of this
State trout, land-locked salmon or salmon
trout less than six inches in length, or
black bass less than ten inches in length,
and does not return the same, with the
least possible injury, to the waters from
whence twas taken or caught. or has in
his possession any trout, land-locked sal
mon, or salmon trout less than six inches
in length. or black bass less than ten
inches in length, caught or taken from
any of the waters of this State, shall be
fined not more than ten dollars for each
| fish so taken, caught or possessed; and the
possession of any such fish shall he prima
| facie evidence that the same was caught or
taken from the waters of this State.
SEC. II. A person who between the first
day of January and the fifteenth day Of
June in any year, takes or catches black
bass in any of the waters of this State, or
has in his possession any black bass taken
| in the waters of this State, or who between
the fifteenth day of April and the fifteenth
day of June in any year takes or catches a
walleyed pike or pike perch, white perch
or muskalloLge, in any of the waters of
this State, except Lake Champlain, or ha 8
| any such fish taken in the waters of this