The Portland daily press., 1899-03-20

dollars nor more than hfty dollars.
section IS. Whoever. between the first day
OF May and the fifteenth day of october, de-
stroys any mink, sable, muskrat, or fisher, Tor
feits ten dollars for each animal SO destroyed;
excepting, however, that it shall be lawful TO
kill muskrats in Lily pond in the towns OF
Rockport and Camden and also such muskrats
as interfere at any time with the operation anu
maintenance of any canal, ditch, iawtui ualn'
cranberry bog. Whoever at any time Kills
or destroys any beaver, except upon written
permission of the commissioners Oh inianu
fisheries and game, shall be fined one hundred
dollars and costs and twenty-five dollars addi-
tional for each beaver killed or destroyed
section Is. A bounty OF i've dollars for
every wolf and of two dollars for every wild
cat killed in any town, shall be paid by the
treasurer thereof to the person killing 1t, upon
compliance with the following conditions: No
bounty shall be paid unless the claimant. within
ten days after he has killed such animal, or has
returned from the hunting in which he killed
it, exhibits to the town treasurer the entire
skin thereof, with the ears and nose thereon,
in as perfect state as when killed, except
natural decay. and signs and makes oath to a
certificate, which oath said treasurer may adj
minister, in which he shall state that he killed
such animal, and the time and place, showing
it to be within the state; and the treasurer
shall thereupon cut of the whole of the ears
and of the nose from such skin, and entirely
destroy them by burning; then he shall pay the
bounty and take the claimants receipt there
for upon the same paper with such certificate.
The town treasurer shall Immediately make
upon the same paper a certificate under oath
addressed to the treasurer of state, that he first
cut of the ears and nose from the skin of such
animal and destroyed them by burning, and
then paid said bounty TO the claimant. said
certificates and receipts shall annually in De
cember be transmitted to the treasurer of state,
and by him laid before the governor and coun-
ell as early as convenient and when allowed |
by them shall be paid by the treasurer of state
to such towns The certificates shall be in the
following form
CLAIMANTS CERTIFICATE.
To the treasurer fl hereby certify that on !
of Maine, killed the 1.-The skin of which l
now exhibit to you; and l claim the bounty |
allowed by law for killing the same.
Dated at...., this day of....A. lis.
....,."Claimant.
Subscribed and sworn to before me the day
and year aforesaid
........ Treasurer off,.
CLAIMANTS RECEIPT.
On this. day of....A. ID. Is, received of
......treasurer off,, ....dollars, being the
bounty allowed by law for killing the....de
scribed in the above certificate.
........ Claimant.
TREAsURER's CERTIFICATE.
hereby certify that as required by law, l
first cut off the whole of the ears and from
the skin of the. described in the foregoing
certificate and destroyed the same by burning,
and then paid to said. the bounty for which
have taken his receipt as above.
Dated at....this ...day Of D. is.
............Treasurer OFF,.
Subscribed and sworn to before me the day
and year aforesaid.
............Justice of the Peace.
Section Il. No person shall at any time
hunt, catch, kill, destroy or have in possession
any COW or calf moose; and the term calf
moose as herein used, shall be construed to |
mean that these animals are calves until they |
are at least one year old, and have at least two
prongs tines to their horns. No person |
shall, between the first day of December and |
the fifteenth day of October, in any manner, |
hunt, take. catch, or kill any bull moose; and |
no person shall, between October fifteenth and !
December first, take, catch. kill or have in pos
session more than one bull moose or part !
thereof.
Section Is. No person SHALL except as here |
matter provided in any manner, hunt take, |
catch, Kill, or have in possession any deer or |
part thereof, between December fifteenth and |
october first; no person shall between October |
first and December fifteenth, except as herein |
after provided, take, catch, kill, or have in pos
session more than two deer or parts thereof
section 10. No person shall at any time, in |
any manner, hunt catch, take kill or destroy, |
with dogs, jack lights artificial lights, snares,
or traps, any moose, deer, or caribou; and no |
person SHALL within six years from October fiji !
teenth, in the year OF our Lord eighteen hun
dred and ninety-nine, in any manner, hunt, |
chase, catch, kill, or have in possession any +
caribou or parts thereof,
Section 20. Whoever shall violate any of the !
provisions of section seventeen of this chapter |
shall be punished by a fine of not less than five
hundred dollars nor more than one thousand |
dollars or by Imprisonment not exceeding four |
months; whoever shall violate any of the pro- |
visions of section eighteen of this chapter |
shall be punished by fine of forty dollars and |
costs; whoever shall violate any of the provi- |
sions of section nineteen of this chapter, relat |
ing to deer, shall be punished by fine of forty |
dollars and costs; and whoever shall violate |
any of the provisions of section nineteen of |
this chapter relating to moose or caribou, shall |
be punished by fine of not less than five hun
dred dollars nor more than one thousand dol |
lars, or by imprisonment not exceeding four
months.
Section n. 1T shall be lawful, however, for
person from the first day of September to the
first day of October of each year, to take, catch,
and kill one deer, for food purposes only, to be
consumed in the locality where taken, by the
person taking the same, in either Of the coun-
ties of oxford, Franklin, Somerset Piscataquis
Penobscot. Aroostook, Hancock, or Washing
ton, such person having first procured license
therefor, as hereinafter provided, on payment
of six dollars by nonresident, and four dol
lars by resident, of this state, for the license
as herein provided, and having at the same
time his license in his possession, and under
such rules and regulations as the commissioners
of inland fisheries and game shall from time to |