The Portland daily press., 1895-02-28

salmon or land-locked salmon and one dollar
Ior each ana every other fish so taken, caught
Killed or destroyed; and when such prohibited
Grafton they are forfeit and contraband, and
any person finding them in use may destroy
them. [Approved February 3.
Chapter 10.
AN ACT to amend section one of chapter one
hundred and forty -four OF the Revised Stat
utes, relating to State Pensions.
Section one of chapter one hundred and for
ty-four of the revised statutes, granting state
pensions, is hereby amended by adding next
after the clause on the quota of Maine in
the third line, the following words; sand any
person not on the quota of Maine, who has
served in the army or navy of the United
States in said war, and who was a resident of
this state at date of enlistment, and at time of
making application for pension shall have
been resident of the state at least five wears
so that said section when amended, shall read
as follows:
SECT. l. Any person who has served bv en-
listment in the army or navy of the United
States, in the wal OF eighteen hundred and six
ty-one, on the quota of Maine, and any person
not on the quota of Maine, who has served in'
the army or navy of the United States in said
war, and who was resident of this state at
date of enlistment, and at time of making ap-
plication for pension shall have been resi-
dent of the state at least five years, and who
has been disabled by wounds or other injury
received in said service, in the line of duty is
entitled to pension from the state of Maine,
not exceeding eight dollars month; provided,
that such soldier or seaman is unable, from his
own resources and the United States pension
to obtain livelihood Approved Feb. 81
Chapter IL.
AN ACT to amend section forty five Of chap
ter one hundred and twenty-four of the Re
vlSed Statutes relating to the duties of Off
GERS and agents in the enforcement of the
laws for the Prevention of Cruelty to An
imals.
Section forty five of chapter one hundred and
twenty-four of the revised statutes is hereby
amended SO that the same shall read as follows:
SECT. 40. 1t shall be the duty.of shefiffs, dep
uty sheriffs, police officers, constables and
agents appointed under the provisions OF Sec
ton forty six of this chapter, to investigate all
cases of cruelty to animals coming to their
knowledge, and to cause offenders to be pros
ecuted in all cases i'll which the offense may
appear to be of a sufficiently aggravated ma
ture to require prosecution, and all fines i'm
posed for the punishment of such offenses
shall be paid over to the county treasurer of
the county in which the Ottense may have been
committed. For their travel and services, in
conducting such Investigations, such agents
shall be paid by the county in which such SER
vices are rendered, the same fees as are now
allowed officers by law for the service of a war
claims of such agents for such travel and SER
vices shall first be audited and approved by the
county commissioners of the county liable to
pay the same Approved February 81
Chapter I2.
AN ACT to fix the salary of the Treasurer of
AroostOok County.
SECT. 1. From and after the first day of
January, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and ninety five, the salary of
the treasurer of Aroostook county shall be
five hundred dollars year, to be paid in equal
quarterly payments.
SECT. 3. All acts and parts of acts incon-
sistent with this act, are hereby repealed
SECT. 8. This act shall take effect when ap-
proved. Approved February II.
Chapter IS.
AN ACT to amend chapter seventeen of the
Public Laws of eighteen hundred and eighty
seven, relating to the protection of the Ale
wive Fishery.
of the public laws of the year eighteen hun
dred and eighty is hereby amended by
striking out the words "a line drawn east and
west across said river at point one-half mile
south of Goose Rock so called,' in the third
fourth and fifth lines and inserting in their
place the words the bridge between the vii
lagos of Newcastle and Damariscotta,' and by
striking out the word twenty in tie eighth
line and inserting in its place the words two
hundred, SO that when amended, the whole
section shall read as follows.
SECT. l. Whoever shall construct, set, main
tain, or use any net weir, seine, or other ma
chine OF device, in the waters of the Damaris-
Gotta river, northerly of the bridge between
the villages of Newcastle and Danariscotta,
for the purpose of taking Or catching alewives,
or whoever shall take or catch any alewives
within said limits, except by hook and line,
shall be punished by fine of two hundred dol
lars for each offense; all nets, weirs, senes, or
other machine or device, prohibited as afore-
said, shall be deemed forfeited and contra
band, and any member of the fish committee
of the towns of Newcastle OF Nobleboro find
ing them in such use may destroy Them
SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when ap-
proved. Approved February IL.
Chanfar
AN ACT to amend chapter two hundred and
forty of the Public Laws of eighteen
hundred and ninety-three, in relation to
boundary lines on the Damariscotta river.
SECT. 1. Section five of chapter two hun
dred and forty nine OF the public laws of eigh-
teen hundred and ninety three is hereby
amended by striking. out the word 'Merrill's''
in the fourth line and inserting the word the
in place thereof so that when amended, it shall
read as follows:
SECT. 5. In the Damariscotta river above a
line drawn from Farnham's head in the town of
Boothbay to point opposite on the shore in
the town of Bristol, excepting the use of drag
seines between the above line and The Lodges,
for all flsh excepting alewives.'
SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when ap-
proved. Approved February II.
Chapter Is.
AN ACT for the better protection of fish in
The taking of herring, OF fishing therefor,
by the use of purse and drag seines and ali
other Seines or nets except the use of seines or
nets in weirs, from the first day of June to the
first day of November, in the waters of Machias
bay and its approaches inside of, or to the
northward OF a direct line drawn straight from
the highest summit of the island called The
Brothers, eastery to point one-halt mile dis
tant, and due south from Libby island light
house, thence from said point easteIly to the
southern extremity of the southern island
called The Double Head Shots, is hereby pro-
hibited. Approved February IL
Chapter 16.
AN ACT to regulate the Alewive Fishery in
Pemaquid River.
SECT. l. From the first day of April to the
fifteenth day of July in each year, all persons
are hereby prohibited from fishing with nets.
seines, traps, weirs, any other Continuance,
in that part of PemaQuid river which lies be-
tween Pemaquid falls and q line drawn west
from the site of the old Pemaquid fort, for the
term of ten years from the passage of this act
SECT. .. Any person violating any of the
provisions of section one of this act shall be
subject to a fine of one hundred dollars and
forfeiture of all boats, nets, and apparatus
used in such illegal fishing.
SECT. 3. All fishing for alewiyes, at or about
Pemaquid falls below the mill dam, shall be
restricted to four days in each week, and the
fishing season shall be from the first dav of
April to the fifteenth day of July of each year.
and all fishing shall be under such regulations
and further restrictions as the fish committee
of the town of Bristol shall decide upon.
SECT. 4. No person not authorized by the
OF