The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-03-23
PUBLIC LAWS OF THE STATE OF MAINE, 1899.

salmon or one white perch or ten pounds of
either kind of these fish, or ono pair of game
birds may send the same to his home or to any
hospital in the state, without accompanying
the same by purchasing Of the duly constituted
agent therefor tag paying for moose five
dollars, for deer two dollars, for n trout,
togue or land-locked salmon, one dollar for
each or one dollar for each ten pounds of the
same, and fifty cents for one white perch or
ten pounds of the same, and fifty cents for a
pair of game birds. The commissioners of in
land fisheries and game may appoint agents in
convenient localities who may sell these tags,
under such rules and regulations the commits
sioners may adopt. Said tag shall be substan-
TALLY as follows:
State of Maine.
Department of Inland Fisheries and Game.
License to ship game, game birds or fish.
No. -.
Augusta, .......1 49,.
This certhes that......of is authorized to
snip to his home in.....or to......, a patient
in the. hospital, the following described
game game birds or fish, Observation-Disclosures.
by having this tag attached thereto.
Not transferable.
Signature of lcensee.
.......,........
................ Commissioners.
DECENTRALIZATION.
Section Of. Any marketman or provision
dealer, having an established place of business
in this state, may purchase and have in his
possession at his said place of business not
Tpa Full Iad In
stroyed, or any part thereof, at one time, and
may sell the same at retail to his local custom
ers provided, however, that said marl1etmen
or provision dealer, shall have procured Ii
cense of the commissioners of inland fisheries
and game to carry on said business of buying
and selling deer as aforesaid and provided
further, that said marketmen shall record in a
book kept for that purpose, and open to the in
spectlon of inland fish and game wardens and
the commissioners of inland fisheries and
game. the name and residence of each person
of whom he purchases any inland fish or game
and the date of such purchase; and if any mar
ketman or provision dealer shall violate the
provisions of this section, he shall be fined five
hundred dollars for each ofrense and be pro-
hi5ited for five years thereafter from the ben
ehts of this section. All marketmen or pro-
vision dealers licensed as aforesaid shall pay to
the commissioners, in cities and towns of over
three thousand inhabitants, five dollars annu-
ally, and three dollars in all other places; or
instead of this fee, the commissioners may, at
their discretion, issue licenses authorizing the
retailing of deer as above specified on payment
OF nlty cents for each deer retailed; said mar
ketmen and provision dealers holding these
licenses shall annually, on December fifteenth,
make, sign, and send to tho commissioners,
under oath, a statement setting forth in detail
the number of deer by them bought, and of
whom bought and tho date of each purchase,
during the time covered by their licenses;
and whoever fails to make the report required
in this section shalljbe subject to penalty of
one hundred dollars and costs.
Section %. The commissioners may annu-
ally issue licenses to suitable persons to buy
and SELL or tan, deer skins lawfully taken.
such persons shall keep record of all deer
skins purchased, Of whom purchased, and the
date of purchase, and shall report annually to
the commissioners. Tho fee for such license
shall be five dollars, TO be paid to the commits
sioners and by them to the state treasurer; and
whoever, licensed Is aforesaid, unreasonably
and willfuily refuses to make such report, shall
be punished by a fine of one hundred dollars
and costs.
section % Every person who keeps a sport
ing camp, lodge or place of resort for inland
hunting or fishing parties, or whoever engages
in the business of hunting or trapping any of
the fur bearing animals of the state, in any Of
the unorganized townships or wild lands
of the state, shall annually procure a IL
cense therefor from tho commissioners of
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for Of five dollars, and shall make such report
to the commissioners as may DO called FOR;
and such licensed persons may purchase for
consumption in their sporting camps, lodges
OF places OF resort, deer lawfully killed; but
they shall keep record of all such purchases,
OF whom purchased, and the date of the pur-
chase, and on December fifteenth of each year
shall make written report thereof to the com
mis5oners under oath, whoever violates any
OF the provisions Of this section shall be fined
one hundred dollars and costs for each offense
the commissioners however may refuse to is
sue license or licenses to such person or per-
sons as they deem unsuitable.
Section 30. No person shall engage in the
business of guiding, either for inland fishing
or forest hunting, until he has caused his
name, age, and residence to be recorded In n
book kept for that purpose by the commissions
ers of inland fisheries and game, and has pro-
cured certificate from said commissioners,
setting forth in substance that he IS deemed
suitable to act as guide, either for inland fish
ing or forest hunting, or both, as the case may
be, under penalty of fifty dollars and costs of
prosecution for each olfense. Each registered
guide shall, from time to time, as often as re-
aucsted by the commissioners, forward on
blanks furnished him by the commissioners, a
statement of the number of persons he has
guided in inland fishing and forest hunting
during the timo called for in said statement,
the number of days he has been employed as a
guide, and such other useful information rela-
tive to inland fish and game, forest fires and
the preservation of the forests in the localities
where he has guided, as the commissioners
may deem of Importance to the state, under n
penalty of fifty dollars for unreasonably or
wilfullyrefusing to comply with these require
ments.
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