Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-14

Whoever shall shoot at or kill or have
in possession any gray squirrel in VIC
lation of any of the provisions of this
section shall pay fine of not more than
five dollars and costs for each offense.
Section sc. 1t shall be unlawful for any
owner, keeper or occupant of any camp,
house or other building used partly or
wholly in numbering operations, to nave,
use or keep in any manner more than
six deer, in any one open season for
deer in any one year, under penalty
of forty dollars and costs for each deer
SO had in possession or used in violation
hereof
Section 3d. Except as herein provided
no person or corporation shall carry or
transport from place to place any bull
moose or deer or part thereof in closed
season nor in open season unless open
to view, tagged, and plainly labeled with
the name and residence of the owner
thereof, and accompanied by him while
being transported and identified by him
at such places as the commissioners of
inland fisheries and game shall have
designated by publication in the daily
newspapers i'll the state, under penalty
of forty dollars and costs for each bull
moose, deer or part thereof so trans
ported or carried; and any person not
the actual owner of such bull moose or
deer or part thereof who, u aid an
other in such transportation, falsely rep
resents himself to be the owner thereof,
shall be liable to the same penalty; and
it shall be prima facie evidence that said
moose or deer or part thereof. that is
being transported or carried in violation
of this section, was illegally killed.
Whoever lawfully kills bull moose,
shall, while the same, or any part there
of, is being transported preserve and
transport it with the evidence thereon
of the sex of the same.
Section IS. There shall be an annual
closed season on wild harcs or rabbits
during which closed season it snail be
unlawful to hunt. kill, catch, pursue or
have them in possession. except alive,
during the months of April, May, June,
July and August of each year.
1t shall be unlawful to use any snares
traps or other devices in the hunting
pursuing or killing of wild hdres or rab-
bits. or To hunt kill the same except
in the ordinary method of shooting with
guns in the usual manner; provided,
however. that it shall be lawful to catch
wild hares OF rabbits in common box
traps during the open season provided in
this section.
Whoever violates any of the provisions
of this section shall pay n fine Of ten
dollars and costs for each offense.
Section ~. Whoever at any time kills,
hunts. destroys or has in possession any
beaver, or part thereof, except herein
provided, shall pay 4 fine of one hun
dred dollars and costs for each offense
and in addition thereto twenty-five dol
lars for each beaver caught killed, de-
stroyed or had in possession, or part or
parts thereof, in violation of any provi-
sion of this section.
Provided. however, that the commits
sioners of inland fisheries and game,
upon complaint of any land owner that
3eaver are doing actual, substantial
damag e, to his rs :, property, shall haXe
pose of the same. All moneys received
by the commissioners of inland fisheries
and game by virtue of this section shall
be by them paid to the state treasurer.
Section 40. Whoever. from the first
day of March to the thrty-first day of
the following October, both days inclu-
sive, hunts. traps. kills, pursues or
catches any fur bearing animal Except
bears muskrats, bobcats, beaver, loup-
eeryier, Canada lynx. foxes, and wea-
sss' Mao, or :" fss from the first day
following October. both days inclusive.
hunts. traps, kills, pursues or catches
any muskrat, snail pay, fine of ten
dollars and costs for each offense and in
addition thereto three dollars for each
fur bearing animal hunted, trapped,
killed. pursued or caught in violation
hereof. or whoever at any time hunts,
traps, kills. pursues. catches or has in
possession any beaver, or part thereof,
except as herein provided. shall pay a
fine of one hundred dollars and costs
for each offense. 1t shall be unlawful
to set a trap within twenty-five feet of
q muskrat house, under penalty of ten
Provided, however, that any person
may lawfully kill any Wild animal fotheI
than beaycrl or any wild bird found de-
stroyiEg his property.
Section IL. 4 bounty of four dollars
for every bob cat, loupcerver or Canada
lynx killed in any town shall be paid by
the state treasurer TO the person killing
it upon compliance with the following
conditions:
No bounty shall be paid unless the
claimant, within five days after he has
kllled such animal or has returned from
the hunting in which he killed it, ex-
hibits to the town treasurer the entire
skin thereof with the ears nose and tail
thereon In as perfect a state as when
killed. except natural decay. and signs
and makes oath to a certificate which
said treasurer may administer in which
he shall state that he has killed
Sqen animal NINA and the time and
state, and the treasurer shall there
upon cut off the whole of the tail
RON such skin and forward the same by
mail TO the commissioners of inland fish
cries and game. at Augusta, Maine. to-
gether with the claimants certificate,
which certificate shall be in the follow
CLAIMANTS CERTIFICATE.
70 the treasurer of the town of. .........:
hereby certify that on the........day
of....-........., A. d. H.. at.............
;;...;;..:.... in the State of Mime. killed
the boocat. louucervier or Canada lynx.
me skin OF which l now exhibit to you.
ana | claim the bounty allowed by law
ior killing the same.
Dated at.......,......, this. day of
....-...A. d. 19.
......-.............Cla Claimant.
Subscribed and sworn to before me the
day and year aforesaid.
......-... Treasurer of
Ana the treasurer of said town shall
make and send at once to the commits
sioners of inland fisheries and game a
certificate which shall be in the follow
ing form:
TOWN TREASURER'S CERTIFICATE.
TO the commissioners of inland fisheries
and game:
| hereby certify that as required by
law, -, of.'''.:...., on the
.-4--day OF ........... A. D.. H., at
,..............., exhibited to ME the whole
of the skin of a bobeat loupcervier or
Canada lynx. and signed and made oath
to the following certificate:
To the treasurer of the town of
| hereby certify that on the... day
OF. ..,..........., A. d. IL. at...........
in the state of Maine. | killed the bob
cat. loupcervier or Canada lynx, the
skin of which l now exhibit to you and
| claim the bounty allowed by law for
killing the same
Dated at. this. ..,......day of
.............A. d. b..
I further certify that | cut off the
whole of the tail from the skin of the
bobcat, loupcervier or Canada LYNX de-
seribed In this certificate and enclose the
same herewith.
.......,......A. ID. H.
........... Treasurer of the town of
Subscribed and sworn to the day and
year aforesaid.