Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-07

same ought to PASS.
The renorts we're accented and the
hills tabled for printing under the
Joint rules.
Passed to be Engrossed
Resolve. to appropriate money Tor
cooperative agricultural work be-
tween the College Of Agriculture or
the University of Maine and the
| United States Department OF Agri-
| culture Oh. ID. 33).
con motion by Mr.. Wadsworth OF
kennebec, tabled pending second
reading)
An Act to amend Section OF
Chapter 147 of the Revised Statutes,
relating to the State Board or Chari-
ties and Corrections (H. ID. 46).
| An Act to regulate the appointment
of guardians for adults and the ap-
pointment OF conservators when the
Judge of Probate is interested and to
amend Sections ana 10 or chapter
- OF the Revised Statutes tH. ID.
6S).
Maine Slate Company. III. D. 1861.
| An Act relating to the Penobscot
Tribe Of Indians. Oh. D. 237).
Resolve, making appropriations for
the Passamaquoddy Tribe of Indians
for the years July list, 1925, to June
3Oth, 1927. Oh. D. 23S).
An Act to Amend Chapter 1875 of
the Public Laws Of 1887, as amended.
entitled. An Act incorporating the
city of Waterville. Oh. D. 239).
An Act to INCORPORATE the Cousins
and Littlejohn's Islands Village Cor
poration. Oh. D. 24O)
An Act Additional to and Amenda-
tory of Chapter 35 of the Revised
Statutes, relating to the prevention of
/ contag ious diseases among animals.
Oh. D. 241).
| An Act to permit ice fishing in
Bauneg Beg Pond. so-called in San
ford and in North Berwick, in the
| County Of Yor'- -. d. 1890,
-(On motion r. Allen Of York.
tabled pending ond readinro
An Act to amend Sections and is
| OF Chapter 113 of the Private and
, Special Laws Of 1921. relating to
Western washington Municipal
Court. Is. D. 14O).
!
| Mr.. ROBERTS of York: Mr.. Presi-
| dent. move for suspension OF the
! rules in order that I may present an
| order out of order.
The motion was agreed to-
Mr.. ROBERTS: Mr.. President,
| there Is before the Senate an act
relative to hunting and fishing, and
by request of the Governor, who has
| prepared this order. I present it at
this time and move it have a passage.
STATE OF MAINE
IN LEGISLATURE
March 4, 1925.
Whereas. 1t has been the popu-
lar assumption for generations that
the wild lands were open to all the
citizens of the State for hunting and
| fishing, subject only to such reg
| ulations as may be made from time
to time by the Legislature in the
exercise of the police power. and
Whereas. there is now pending be-
fore the Joint Committee of the
Legislature on State Lands and
Forest Preservation, a bill entitled
IAN Act Relative to Hunting and
! fishing" and
Whereas, Section one of said act
! reads as follows:
THE common law right of the in
dividual to hunt and camp on I'M
inclosed wood lands belonging to
| another. and the right to cross and
recross such lands to lawfully fish
and fowl on great ponds, rivers ana
streams. shall not be denied or
abridged to any person in this State
and
Whereas. 1t now appears 1mper-
alive that the present legal rights of
the public as aforesaid on the wild
land be determined.
Now, Therefore, ordered. the House
concurring, that in accordance with
the provisions of the Constitution of
this State. the Justices of the Su-
preme Judicial Court are hereby
respectfully requested to give this
Legislature their opinion on the fol-
lowing questions:
Question Number One
Have the citizens of Maine the
right to go upon the uninclosed
wood lands belonging to another,
without his leave. to hunt and take
fish or for any other pur-
pose, in addition to the right de-
finitely given by the Colonial ordin-
ances of 1641-47 to cross such lands
to fish and fowl on the great ponds?
Question Number Two
DO the cltlzens OF maine "ili!e eN,
ercising any of the rights referred