Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-07-09
Protest Newspaper S Bull
On Moose Law in Maine
Fish and Game Department
Points to Need Correcting
Portland Press Herald's
Story to Effect That Law
Will Be Off Coming Season
Last Legislature Continued
Closed Time on Moose for
Another Four Years

The statement to the effect that
there will be opportunity legally to
hunt moose in Maine this fall, APP
pearing on the front page of the
Portland Press Herald of July s, is
likely to lead to disappointment. If
not worse, for hunters who may fail
to learn that the ban on moose
hunting In Maine is yet on and
clamped down tightly.
There can be no legal hunting of
moose in Maine this fall under any
conditions. and unless succeeding
Legislatures undo what the SD Leg
islature did, there will be no legal
hunting of moose in Maine for a
period of four years from July Z,
1925. n
The last Legislature passed an
emergency act, Chapter So of the
Public Laws, approved March %,
1925. and going into effect when APP,
proved, that continued the ban on
moose hunting in this State, which
had been in force for the previous
four years.
! The sections of this act are as fol-
lows:
Sec. 1. Section thirtyrseven of
chapter two hundred and nineteen
of the public laws of nineteen hum
dred and seventeen, as amended by
chapter one hundred and thirty-one
Of the public laws of nineteen hun
dred and nineteen and by chapter
one hundred and five of the public
laws of nineteen hundred and twen-
ty-one, is hereby further amended
by striking out the first. paragraph
of said section, and by substituting
therefor the following paragraph:
Whoever, at any time for a period
of four years from July seventh.
nineteen hundred and twenty five,
hunts, pursues or kills any moose,
or has in possession any part or
parts thereof, whenever or wherever
taken, caught or killed, shall pay
fine of not less than two hundred
dollars and costs for each offense,
or be imprisoned not exceeding four
months, or shall be subject to both
said fine and imprisonment so that
said section, as amended, shall read
as follows:
Sec. .37.-whoever at any time.
for a period of four years from July
seventh. nineteen hundred and TWEEN
ty-f1ve, hunts, pursues, or kills any
moose, or has II his possession any
part or parts thereof, whenever or
wherever taken, caught or killed,
shall pay a fine of not less than two
hundred dollars, nor more than
three hundred dollars and costs for
each offense, or be imprisoned not
exceeding four months, or shall be
subject to both said fine and i'm
prisonment.
Provided, however, that the COM
missioner of inland fisheries and
game, upon application from any
person who has legally killed a
moose beyond the limits of this
state, may issue. special importa-
ton license permitting the importa-
ton of such moose. or part thereof,
for consumption or mounting within
this state, under such rules and reg
ulatio4is as said commissioner NAV
establish; provided. however, that
no moose, or part thereof, imported
by virtue of this act shall be sold or
offered for sale at. any time, and
provided, further, that said commits
sioner shall appoint the customs Of
ficers or other persons at convenient
points along the Maine boundary as
agents to issue the importation Ii
censes above named
Sec. 2. In view of the emergency
set forth in the preamble, this act
shall take effect when approved
Approved March %.
1t is the desire of the State de-
partment of the inland fisheries and
game that the mis-statement or mis-
Interpretation of the law, appearing
in the Portland paper Wednesday
morning, be corrected herewith, as
1t will be misleading to the public.