where taken, and transportation of hide, head and horns of the CHAP. 42 same. Signature of licensee,.. Commissioners. Signature of registered guide, No.... for violation. -close time for deer in of York, land, An the counties Cumber droscoggin and Sagadafour years. Knox, hoc, for Whoever shall take, catch or kill any deer, or enter upon the -Penalty wild lands in this state, with intent to camp and kindle fires thereon, while engaged in hunting or fishing, without being in charge of a registered guide, during the months of June, July, August, September and October, in violation of the provisions herein contained, shall be fined forty dollars and costs of prosecution, for each offense, and be subject to imprisonment thirty days. It shall be unlawful, however, to take, catch, kill, chase or hunt any deer in either of the counties of York, Cumberland, Androscoggin or Sagadahoc, for four years from October first, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and ninety-nine; and it shall be unlawful to hunt, chase, catch or kill any deer in the counties of Knox, Lincoln, and Waldo, except during the month of October of each year, or in Kennebec, except during the months of October and November of each year, and no person shall, during the respective open seasons in these counties, take, catch, kill, or have in possession more than two deer. Whoever shall violate any of the provisions of this section relating to deer in the counties of York, Cumberland, Androscoggin, Sagadahoc, Knox, Lincoln, Waldo, and Kennebec, shall be subject to a penalty of forty dollars and costs for each offense. Lincoln and Waldo, durmonth of each year. ing the October, during the -Kennebec, months of October and November. weer be taken. only may -penalty. Having in more than possession one moose shall be or two deer, deemed violations. defined. to kill. 'Section 22. Whoever has in possession more than one bull moose or more than two deer, in open season, or any of the aforesaid animals or parts thereof, in close season, except as is provided in this chapter, shall be deemed to have killed, taken and destroyed the same in violation of law. The words 'close season' and 'close time,' where used in this act, shall mean the terms time or period during which by this act it is made unlawful to hunt, shoot, wound, trap or destroy any bird or animal, or fish lawful for, or catch any fish mentioned or referred to in this act, and the words 'open season' where used in this act, shall mean the time or period during which it shall be lawful to take these animals, fish, and birds, as specified and limited. Any person may, at any time, lawfully kill any dog found hunting or chasing penalty a moose, caribou, or deer, or any dog kept or used for that purpose. Any person owning or having in his possession any dog for the purpose of hunting or chasing moose, caribou, or deer, dogs, ing moose, found hunt deer or caribou. for keeping dogs for hunting moose, deer bou. and cari -Sunday a close time, perpetually. CHAP. 42 or who permits his dog to hunt or chase moose, caribou, or deer, shall be punished by a fine of one hundred dollars and costs of prosecution for each offense. Sunday is a close time, on which it is not lawful to hunt, kill, or destroy game or birds of any kind, under the penalties imposed therefor during other close time; but the penalties already imposed for the violation of the Sunday laws by the statutes of this state are not hereby repealed or diminished. -penalties. -Penalty for transporting moose and deer unless tagged and open to view and accom panied by owner. -penalty for falsely claiming to be owner. -when bull moose is transported, evidence of sex shall be on same. -penalty. All birds, fish and game, transported, etc., in violation, liable to seizure. -shall be forfeited to state. -game may be returned to owner, by giving bond. 'Section 23. No person or corporation shall carry or transport from place to place any moose or deer, or part thereof, in close time, nor in open time unless open to view, tagged and plainly labeled with the name and residence of the owner thereof, and accompanied by him, under a penalty of forty dollars and costs of prosecution for each moose or deer so transported or carried; and any person not the actual owner of such game or parts thereof, who, to aid another in such transportation, falsely represents himself to be the owner thereof, shall be liable to the penalties aforesaid; and it shall be prima facie evidence that said game, that is being transported or carried in violation of this section, was illegally killed; but nothing herein shall apply to the transportation of moose or deer by any person or corporation, when such game is lawfully tagged in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-six of this chapter. Whoever lawfully kills a bull moose shall, while the same or any part thereof, is being transported, preserve and transport it with the evidence on the moose of the sex of the same. Whoever fails to comply with the provisions of this' section shall forfeit to the state the moose or part thereof being transported, and pay a fine of three hundred dollars and costs of prosecution. 'Section 24. All birds, fish and game hunted, caught, killed, destroyed, bought, carried, transported or found in possession of any person or corporation, in violation of the provisions of this chapter and amendments thereto, shall be liable to seizure; and in case of conviction for such violation, such game shall be forfeited to the state, to be sold for consumption in this state only. Any person whose game or fish has been seized for violation of any game or fish law, shall have it returned to him on giving to the officer a bond with sufficient sureties, residents of the state, in double the amount of the fine for such violation, on condition that, if convicted of such violation, he will, within thirty days thereafter, pay such fine and costs. If he neglects or refuses to give such bond and takes the game or fish so seized, he shall have no action against the officer for such seizure, or for the loss of the game or fish seized. 'Section 25. No resident of this state shall sell or give away any moose or deer or part thereof, or any game birds, to be transported or carried beyond the limits of this state, under a penalty of one hundred dollars for each and every moose, deer or part thereof, and one dollar for every game bird so sold or given away; and any person who shall buy any of the above named animals or birds or parts thereof, to so transport them, or who shall transport them after buying the same or receiving the same as a gift, shall be subject to the same penalty. Fish and game may without bepanied by payment of be transported, ing accom owner, upon cense fee. 'Section 26. Any person who has lawfully killed a moose or a deer, except in September as heretofore provided, or who has lawfully in his possession one trout, one togue, one landlocked salmon or one white perch or ten pounds of either kind of these fish, or one pair of game birds, may send the same to his home or to any hospital in the state, without accompanying the same by purchasing of the duly constituted agent therefor a tag, paying for a moose five dollars, for a deer two dollars, for a trout, togue or land-locked salmon, one dollar for each or one -fees. dollars for each ten pounds of the same, and fifty cents for one white perch or ten pounds of the same, and fifty cents for a pair of game birds. The commissioners of inland fisheries and game may appoint agents in convenient localities who may sell these tags, under such rules and regulations as the commissioners may adopt. Said tag shall be substantially as follows: State of Maine. Department of Inland Fisheries and Game. -agents may be appointed -form of tag. pital, the following described game, game birds or fish, by having this tag attached thereto. ... Not transferable. Signature of licensee, Commissioners. may have sion three 'Section 27. Any marketman or provision dealer, having Marketmen an established place of business in this state, may purchase and have in his possession at his said place of business not more than three deer, lawfully killed or destroyed, or any part thereof, at one time, and may sell the same at retail to his local cus in possesdeer and same after license of sell the procuring commissioners. -shall keep record of the name and residence of each person of whom he purchases fish and game. -penalty. CHAP. 42 tomers, provided, however, that said marketmen or provision. dealer, shall have procured a license of the commissioners of inland fisheries and game to carry on said business of buying and selling deer as aforesaid; and provided further, that said marketmen shall record in a book kept for that purpose, and open to the inspection of inland fish and game wardens and the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, the name and residence of each person of whom he purchases any inland fish or game and the date of such purchase; and if any marketman or provision dealer shall violate the provisions of this section, he shall be fined five hundred dollars for each offense and be prohibited for five years thereafter from the benefits of this section. All marketmen or provision dealers licensed as aforesaid shall pay to the commissioners, in cities and towns of over three thousand inhabitants, five dollars annually, and three dollars in all other places; or instead of this fee, the commissioners may, at their discretion, issue licenses authorizing the retailing of deer as above specified, on payment of fifty cents for each deer retailed; said marketmen and provision dealers holding these licenses shall annually, on December fifteenth, make, sign, and send to the commissioners, under oath, a statement setting forth in detail the number of deer by them bought, and of whom bought, and the date of each purchase, during the time covered by their licenses; and whoever fails to make the report required in this section shall be subject to a penalty of one hundred dollars and costs. -fee for license. -shall make report to commissioners. -penalty. 'Section 28. The commissioners may annually issue licenses to suitable persons to buy and sell, or tan, deer skins lawfully taken. Such persons shall keep a record of all deer skins purchased, of whom purchased, and the date of purchase, and shall report annually to the commissioners. The fee for such license shall be five dollars, to be paid to the commissioners and by them to the state treasurer; and whoever, licensed as aforesaid, unreasonably and willfully refuses to make such report, shall be punished by a fine of one hundred dollars and costs. 'Section 29. Every person who keeps a sporting camp, lodge or place of resort for inland hunting or fishing parties, or whoever engages in the business of hunting or trapping any of the fur bearing animals of the state, in any of the unorganized townships or wild lands of the state, shall annually procure a license therefor from the commissioners of inland fisheries and game and pay a fee therefor of five dollars, and shall make such report to the commissioners as may be called for; and such licensed persons may purchase for consumption in their sporting camps, lodges or places of resort, deer lawfully killed; -keep record of chases and but they shall keep a record of all such purchases, of whom CHAP. 42 purchased, and the date of the purchase, and on December fifteenth of each year shall make written report thereof to the commissioners under oath; whoever violates any of the provisions of this section shall be fined one hundred dollars and costs for each offense; the commissioners however may refuse to issue a license or licenses to such person or persons as they deem unsuitable. 'Section 30. No person shall engage in the business of guiding, either for inland fishing or forest hunting, until he has caused his name, age, and residence to be recorded in a book kept for that purpose by the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, and has procured a certificate from said commissioners, setting forth in substance that he is deemed suitable to act as a guide, either for inland fishing or forest hunting, or both, as the case may be, under a penalty of fifty dollars and costs of prosecution for each offense. Each registered guide shall, from time to time, as often as requested by the commissioners, forward, on blanks furnished him by the commissioners, a statement of the number of persons he has guided in inland fishing and forest hunting during the time called for in said statement, the number of days he has been employed as a guide, and such other useful information relative to inland fish and game, forest fires and the preservation of the forests in the localities where he has guided, as the commissioners may deem of importance to the state, under a penalty of fifty dollars for unreasonably or willfully refusing to comply with these require ments. such purreport to sioners. -penalty. licenses commis may be refused. Guides reregister missioners. quired to with com -certificate. -shall fur nish inforrequested mation as to commissioners. -penalty. Form of tion. registra -class may or local. sons may 'Section 31. Such registration as is provided for in this chapter shall be as follows; the applicant shall apply in writing or personally to the commissioners for registration, or to some person designated by the commissioners, setting forth in his application whether he desires to be registered as a general or local guide; and the commissioners shall, as soon thereafter as be general may be, register such person as a guide in such class as they shall deem proper, after such investigation as they shall deem proper; unfit perbut said commissioners may refuse to register any applicant be refused. whom they deem unfit to be a guide, and may, for cause shown, -certificate after due notice and hearing, cancel any registration by them canceled. made, and may advance any one from the local class to the gen- -guides eral class, whenever they shall deem such person qualified to be advanced. a general guide. Whenever a guide, registered as provided in this chapter, is convicted of any violation of any of the inland fish and game laws, the commissioners shall, at their discretion, cancel his certificate of registration and strike his name from may be may be -penalty of guides who law. violate the |