The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-04-08

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Section IS. No person shall engage in
the business OF guiding. either for inland
fishing or forest hunting. until he shall
have filed with the commissioners of in
land fisheries and game certificate and
affidavit signed by the municipal officers,
or majority thereof, of the town or
plantation within which the applicant
resides, or, if the applicant is a resident
and affidavit signed by the municipal
officers, or a majority thereof, of the
nearest town or plantation, setting forth
in substance that the applicant is per-
son of good moral character and So
briefly. and is deemed by them to be
suitable person to receive a certificate as
guide, and until he has caused his
name, age and residence to be recorded in
commissioners and has procured a certi-
ficate from said commissioners, setting
forth in substance that he is deemed
suitable to act as guide. either for in
as the case may be, under a penalty of
fifty dollars and costs for each offense,
Each registered guide shall, from time to
time. as often as requested by the COM
mlssioners, forward, on blanks furnished
him by the commissioners, statement of
the number of persons he has guided in
inland fishing and forest hunting during
me ne time called for in said statement,
tne number OF days he has been en-
ployed as guide. and such other useful
information relative to inland fish and
game, forest fires, and the preservation
has guided, as the commissioners NAV
deem of importance to the State. under q
penalty of fifty dollars for unrea sonahlv
or wilfully refusing to comply with these
requirements. '''e'o
Such registration shall be as follows:
The applicant shall apply in writing or
personally to the commissioners for
registration, or to some person designat-
ea by the commissioners, setting forth in
UTh fhnr ~
registered as a general or local guide and
the commissioners shall, as soon there
after as may be, register such person as
d GUIDE IN such class as they shall deem
proper, after such investigation as they
shall deem proper; but said commission
ers may refuse to register any applicant
Whom they may deem unfit to be a guide,
ana ana may for cause shown, after due no.
ice ana nearing, cancel any registration
py them made, and may advance anyone
from the local class to the general class,
whenever they shall deem such person
o ouaii dn11a 10 be general guide: fee Of
one collar snail be paid annually for the
registration as herein provided
No person shall receive a certificate as
general guide unless he be at least
twenty years Of age. of good repute. and
and will discountenance in all proper
ways all violations thereof. He shall be
thoroughly competent to traverse the
hunting grounds in which he is licensed
management, and handling of such boats
or canoes. on lake, pond, or river, as are
used in the territory in which he is au-
thorlzed to guide, and shall be a safe
person under all circumstances to be a
guide for inland fishing and forest hunt
ing parties. A person may receive a GER
tlncate as local guide who does not in
tne Judgment of the commissioners, pos
sess all the necessary qualifications of a
general guide, yet is deemed suitable to
act as such under certain conditions: and
guides may be restricted in the territory
1 IA, "hch they are permitted to guide.
Inc commissioners of inland fisheries
and game may. in their discretion. license
as guides such non-residents as reside in
territory contiguous to the State under
9he eoiiui.lons as are herein provided for
lee for such nonresident guide Ecense
shall be twenty dollars
Whenever a guide registered, as proyid-
ed in this section, violates any of the in
land fish and game. laws, the commits
soners may. at their discretion, cancel
his certificate of registration and strike
his name from the list of registered
guides but such person may thereafter
pc registered again at the discretion OF
celled by virtue of this section shall be
Immediately returned to the commission
ers, under penalty of fifty dollars for
refusal or neglect to comply with this
requirement.. -(Approved March 80, 1857
Chapter 235.
An Act to provide, for the granting of
lobster licenses and giving Statewide
jurisdiction to Wardens.
Section /. Fish wardens and DEPUTY
Wardens shall be held to be officers with
all the powers of sheriffs, within the
meaning OF that term as used in the
general law, and shall have jurisdiction
ana authority in all the counties of the
state, and in all waters within the juris-
dletion OF the State. and may enforce
any provisions of this act or any other
act relating to the lobster industry, either
with or without a warrant, but shall
obtain a warrant thereafter within
twenty -four hours.
Section q No person, firm or corpora
ton, either by themselves as principal
or by their servants or agents, shall, at
any time, catch, take, hold, buy, ship,
transport, carry, give away, remove,
sell or expose for sale, or have in his or
Its possession, except for the immediate
consumption of himself and family, any
lobster from any of the waters in the
jurisdiction OF this State, or place, set.
keep, maintain, supervise, lift, raise or
cause to be placed, set, kept. MAIN
tanned, supervised, lifted, raised or
drawn in from any of said waters any
pot, trap, traWl, car, boat, smack. vessel
or other contrivance designed or adapted
for the catching, taking, holding or for
removal or transportation of Holsters,
Unless licensed 10 10 SO as hereinafter
provided, except that common carriers
engaged in carrying general freight on
fixed schedules may, without license,
transport legally caught Holsters, with
in or without the State; provided that
said Holsters are received by said COM
mon carriers at one of their regular es-
tablished places of business upon land
for receiving freight; and provided the
receptacle containing said Holsters is
plainly marked showing the contents to
be Holsters, together with the full and
correct name and address of both con-
sisnor and consignee. Every person,
firm or corporation who shall violate
any of the provisions of this section, or
aid in doing so, upon conviction in any
court of competent jurisdiction, as de-
fined in this act, shall be fined twenty
five dollars for the first offense; for the
second offense, fifty dollars; and for
any subsequent otfense, fifty dollars and
thirty days Imprisonment in addition;
and no SUCH party convicted of third
offense shall. either by themselves or
their servants or agents, be entitled to
receive a license during the period of
one year from the date of said convic-
ton.
Section }. The commissioner of sea
and shore fisheries shall grant and issue
licenses to any citizens of this State, or
to any person having resided in this
state for one year Immediately preced-
ing the date of application for license.
or to corporations or firms engaged in
or other states, to eaten, take, hold, buy,
ship, transport, carry, give away, re-
move, sell or expose for sale, within this
State, and have in his or its possession,
lobster from the waters within the juris-
diction of this State, in the manner, at
the time and subject to the regulations
provided in this act
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