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

SEC. ~. Any hcensee shipping hsh
caught under license as herein provided,
shall plainly mark the box. barrel. pack
age or parcel containing such fish sub
stantially as follows:
.,..,. under license .o"n :.
granted the. ........ day or" .lS.....
And the having of fish 80 caught aud
labelled shall not be presumptive evidence
that they were caught In violation of law.
SEC. 81. Alllicensees shall. within thirty
days after being so requested to do by the
Fish and Game Commissioners, or either
of them, make report to said Commits
sion OF their catch for the season next pre-
ceding, giving as near rs may be, such in
formation respecting their catch as the
Commissioners may require. Any licensee
failing to comply with this provision shall
be fined ten dollars.
SEC. 80. All persons fishing under
licenses shall, within thirty days after the
close OF any fishing season, as fixed by
said license, remove their nets and fishing
apparatus used by virtue Of such license
from the lake shore, or the Same shall
thereafter be subject to seizure by any
fish and game warden, and sale. one-half
the proceeds Of such sale to b. retained by
the warden making such seizure and one
half to be paid to the County Clerk where
such seizure is made, to go to the State.
SEC. 80. Any person permitting another
TO nsh under license granted him, aud
every person fishing or attempting to fish
under license not granted to him or con-
tanning his name, and any person label
ling any box, barrel. package, or parcel as
provided by section thirty-six of this act
a .
or Offering to sell, any fish not caught
under license representing that they
were caught under q license, shall be fined
one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned
ninety days.
Game-Quadrupeds.
SEC. 40 A person who, prior to the first
day OF November, one Thousand nine hun
drec, pursnes, takes or kills, within this
State. wild deer, or has in his possession
a wild deer, or part thereof, SO taken or
Filled, shall be fined one hundred dollars,
and the possession Of the meat or pelt or
any part of a wild deer shall be presump-
tive evidence that the person having it in
possession is guilty of a violation of the
provisions of this section.
SEC. Al. If any pers IN shall kill any
rabbit or hare, between the first day Of
May and the first day of September in
any year, he shall be fined five dollars for
each rabbit or hare 50 killed.
SEC. A. A person who kills, catches or
destroys beaver, fisher or otter between
the first day of April and the first day of
November in any year shall be fined
twenty dollars; and person who kills by
poison beaver, fisher OF otter shall be
fined not less than ten dollars for each
animal so destroyed.
Game-Birds.
SEC. 43. No person shall take or kill in
this State quail, wild duck, wild goose,
or plover between the first day of January
and the first day of September in any
year, or any ruffed grouse commonly
called partridge or woodcock, between
the first day of January and the fifteenth
day of September in any year, or pheasant
between the twentieth day Of November
in one year aud the first day Of October in
a succeeding year; nor shall any person
have in his possession any quail, ruffed
grouse, wild goose, wild duck, plover,
woodcock or pheasant taken or killed in
violation of the provisions of this section:
nor shall person at any time within this
State take or destroy the eggs of any of
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his possession any eggs taken in violation
Of tGa provisions Of this section, or take
any Bird in this section named by means
of a snare, net or trap. A person violating
any of the provisions of this section shall
be fined ten dollars for each offense
SEC. A. No person shall at any time
take, kill, purchase, receive. or cause to
be taken, killed or received, any woodcock
or ruffed grouse. commonly called part
ridge), for the purpose of shipping or in
any manner disposing to parties or per-
sons outside of this State for traffic or
gain. Any person violating the provis-
ions of this section shall be fined ten dol.
lars
SEC. IS. Any person who intentionally
shoots, or otherwise wounds, entraps, en-
snares or captures any wild or undomes-
ticated bird, except quail, woodcock, wild
duck, ruffed grouse, wild goose, plover,
pheasant, merganser, blue heron, bittern,
loon, English sparrow, crow black bird,
crow, jay or birds of prey, or any person
who destroys the nest or eggs of any wild
or undomesticated birds, except the birds
hereinbefore excepted, shall forfeit five
dollars, which may be recovered in an &C
ton of debt, with costs, by any person
who ues for the same.
No. Sian Act Relating to the Protec-
tion Of Game.
SECTION 1. For two years from January
/, 1893, no person shall take or kill within
this State pheasant or an English part
ridge; and thereafter no person shall take
or kill. in this State, any pheasant or Eng
lish partridge between the twentieth day
of November in one year and the first day
of October in succeeding year. Any per-
son violating any of the provisions Of this
section shall be fined ten dollars for each
offense.
SEC. Q. This act shall not prevent the
taking and killing Of said birds on 'Shel-
burne Farms" SO called, in the town of
Shelburne.
Approved Nov. %, 1872.
Posted Lands, Bounties, Etc.
SEC. 49, When the owner or occupant
of inclosed or cultivated land con-
spicuously posts notices on the same as
hereinafter provided that shooting. trap
ping, or fishing thereon 10 prohibited, il u
person thereafter willfully enters upon
such land without the permission Of the
owner or occupant, for the purpose of
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