The Portland daily press., 1897-07-28
MATnIESON DEFlED Law.
Reason lie Was Not Given a Guides
License.
COMMISSIONER CARLETON CONSID-
ERS HIS RECENT STATEMENT.


Must Promise to Obey Law Before ne
is Registered-Charees Thai He Has
Repeatedly Violated the Same.
Augusta, July 27.-An Associated Press
reporter called on Chairman Carleton Oh
| the fish and game commission VINO was
shown James Mathieson's statement,
published in today's papers.
Yes, see," said Mr.. Carleton, that
Mr.. Mathieson has seen fit to appeal to
the public for a justification OF openly
violating the law of the State OF Maine,
for he says, he is attending strictly TO
business, though not in terms saying ne
is engaged in the business of guiding, yet
he evidently intends to give the public
that impression.
'This appeal to the public Is a little
surprising, coming SO soon after the an
| nouncenent that the courts were to be
| appealed to by him, and had written MS
counsel that we should be pleased to have
him do so. and would do all we could to
expedite the hearing and make 1t as in
expensive to him as possible. AS he
wishes the public to be the tribunal 1T
should be in possession of the facts, and
so here is the letter written him, to which
we have as yet received no reply, which
gives some of the reasons for withholding
his certifcate:'
July IA, 1897.
James Mathieson, ESD:
Dear Sir-In view of the facts that the
;cciou cnn1n1l}p6 tn leave
Rangeley without giving you hearing,
as we had notified you we would, though
YOU did not in any way notify us of any
desire on your part to be heard, we had q
special meeting on the evening of July
14th to fully consider your case, and we
unanimously decied in view OF your of
repeated assertions and declarations made
to each member of the board since you
filed your application for registration as a
guide under the laws of the state viz:
sThat you would not conform as O.
registered guide to the requirements of
the law; that you had procured counsel,
(not State of Maine counseD and that you
could not be compelled to be governed by
this guide law or obey its requirements"
and much more of the same import that
you will be required to unequivocally
withdraw these declarations and asser
tions and statements and declarations
and assertions of like import, before we
can grant you certificate as registered
guide either for inland fishing or forest
hunting. You stated also to us, that it
was matter of indifference to you
whether we granted you a certificate or
not. We are disposed to accent the fact
of your making written application for
registration an abandonment on your
part of your former declarations to resist
the law, and should have issued you
certificate, but for the assertions Of yours,
above referred to, made since you made
your applications. We only require you to
express willingness to respect and obey
the law We were compelled to take into
consideration the fact that since July 1,
the date when the law went into effect,
you have constantly violated tive should
however treated your application as
covering that point if the matters herein
referred to had not taken place. Trusting
that the reason for our refusing you
registration up to the present time, and
what is absolutely necessary for you to
do to secure a certificate is herein made
sufficiently plain, we are,
Yours truly,
L. 7. CARLETON,
HENRY n STANT,EY