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

TENDER of the following year, both days
inclusive; OH all varieties of ducks, from
the first day of January to the thirty
first day of the following August of each
year, both days inclusive: on plover,
snipe and sandpipers, from the first day
of December of each year to the thirty
first day of July of the following year,
both days inclusive, during which closed
chase, catch, kill or have in possession
any of the above named birds, except
as hereinafter provided; and no person
shall during the respective open seasons
for the above named birds take, catch,
kin or destroy in any one day more
than five partridge or ruffed grouse, ten
woodcock, ten ducks, five plover, ten
snipe and fifty sandpipers; nor shall any
person at any time buy or sell any of
the above named birds; nor shall any
person or corporation carry or transport
from place to place any of the birds
mentioned in this section in closed sea-
son nor in open season unless open to
view, tagged and plainly labeled with the
owners name and residence, and ac-
oompanied by him, unless tagged with
a special shipping tag as hereinafter
provided; nor shall any person or corpo-
ration carry or transport in any one
day more than fifteen ducks. five plover
ten snipe, ten cartridges, fifty sand
pipers. ten woodcock, as the property of
one person. Whoever violates any Of the
provisions of this section Shall paw a
fine of ten dollars and costs for each
offense, and in addition thereto one dol
varieties taken, caught killed, had in
possession or transported in violation
hereof.
Provided, however, it shall he lawful
for a citizen of this state who has pur-
chased a license therefor of the com
missioners of inland fisheries and game
and paid flve dollars for the same, TO
take with him out OF the state five par
tridges or ten ducks or ten woodcock
which he himself has lawfully killed
by detaching from said license the
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to the birds being transported by virtue
of this paragraph.
Provided, further, that any citizen of
this state who has lawfully in his pos
session one pair Of either of the birds
nameu in this section may send the
same anywhere in this state without
of the duly constituted agent therefor a
tag paying therefor The sum of fifty
cents, and attaching said tag to the pair
of birds Provided. further that no per-
son shall under any Of the provisions
of this paragraph send as aforesaid
more than one pair Of game birds once
in seven days.
Section A. Whoever At any time or at
any place with any trap, net snare or
contrvance other than the usual method
of shooting. with firearms takes any bird
of any variety in any WISE protected by
this act shall pay Il fine u live dollars
and costs for each bird 50 taken.
Section As. The general supervision of
the depaItment OF sea and shore fish
by extended to embrace All the islands
in the sea within the jurisdiction of the
state, the deer and other game and
birds found thereon. and said depart
ment shall have charge of the enforce
ment of the laws relating 10 all ducks.
shore and o.ner birds On the sea coast
Of the state one mile inland including
all bays and inlets 50 far as the tide
Gibbs and flows. except the Kennebec
river above the city Of Bath
Section 40. No person shall within the
state. kiIi catch have in his or ,ha,.
possession, living or dead any wild bird
other than a game bird, nor purchase
offer expose for sale any such wild
bird after it has been killed or caught.
No part of the plumage. skin or body
of any bird protected by this section
shall be sold or mad in possession for
sale. Nor shall any person take or
needlessly destroy the nest or the eggs
of any wild bird. nor have such nest or
eggs in possession. The English or
European house sparrow the common
crow, and the hawks and OWLS mud
hens cor bitternl, Hing-iishers. looms
and blue herons are not included among
the birds herein protected: and for the
purposes of this act the following only
shall be considered game birds; the ana
tidae, commonly known as swans. geese.
brant, and river and sea ducks: the
! coots, and gallinues; the limicolae
commonly known as shore birds, plovers,
surf birds, snipe, wnodeoek, sandpipers.
tatlers and curiewsi the gaIlinae, COM
: prairie chickens, phpasants. cartridges
and auails. Nothing In this section.
however. shall be construed to affect in
any way the protection of game birds.
as provided in sections 70 and 49, Any
person who violates any Of the provi-
sions of this section shall paw a fine of
: five dollars and costs, for each offense,
and an additional five dollars for each
bird, living or dead, or part Of a bird,
or nest, or egg possessed in violation
days.
, Section Al. 1t shall be unlawful for any
person at any tine to use boat or
launch OF any kind propelled by steam,
naphtha, gasoline or electricity, or any
other mode than the ordinary sail boat
!, or row boat. in chasing hunting or
cunning any sea birds, duck or water
fowl in any of the inland waters of this
state, under a penalty of not less than
twenty-five dollars nor more than one
hundred dollars and costs for each
: offense.
: Section As. 1t shall be unlawful for any
: person at any time to hunt, pursue,
shoot at or kin any wild animal or bird
purpose of this act Kineo Point shall be
construed to mean all the lands lying
southerly OF the top of Mt. kineo and
extending to the pavilion at North Bay.
Whoever violates any of the provisions
OF this section shall pay a fine of fifty
dollars and costs for each offense.
Section 4s. II shall be unlawful, except
as herein provided for any person at
any time to hunt, pursue shoot at or
kin any wild animal or any game or
other wild bird within the following
described territory situated in he town
OF Eden, in the county of Hancock
bounded on the north and east by the
Atlantic ocean, on the south by the
highway leading from Hull's Cove bridge
to the Beaver Dam bridge near Shea
Brothers farm; and on the west by the
highway leading from said Beaver Dam
bridge to Salisbury cove.
The provisions of this section shall not
prohibit any person residing within the
limits of the above described territory
from shooting or destroying any wild
bird. except rufed grouse or Hungarian
partridge. or any wild animal, when
found destroying his property; and, pro-
vided. further, that the provisions of this
act shall not be construed to prohibit
the trapping of wild animals within this
territory in accordance with the general
laws of the State
Whoever violates any of the provisions
of this section shall pay fine of fifty
dollars and costs for each offense.
Section so. Sunday is a closed season,
on which it is not lawful to hunt, kill,
or destroy game or birds of any kind,
under the penalties imposed therefor
during other closed season, but the pen
alties already imposed for the violation
of the Sunday laws by the statutes of
this state are not hereby repealed or
diminished.
Section II Parsons NOT homo Gda raSi