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REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 



Close time on 

 lobster be- 

 tween Novem- 

 ber 15th in 

 each year and 

 the 15th day 

 of April next 

 succeeding. 



Sec. 8. Between the fifteenth day of November in e^ch 

 year and the fifteenth day of April next succeeding, no person 

 shall catch or take any lobster from any of the waters in the 

 jurisdiction of this state, or place, set, keep, maintain, supervise, 

 lift, raise, or draw, or cause to be placed, set, kept, maintained, 

 supervised, lifted, raised, or drawn, in or from any of said waters, 

 any pots or other contrivances designed or adapted for the 

 catching or taking of lobsters. Every person violating any of 

 the provisions of this section shall be fined twenty dollars or be 

 imprisoned not more than thirty days for each such offence, or 

 both. 



Sec. 9. No person except the commissioners of inland fish- 

 eries and their deputies shall lift or raise any pot, belonging to 

 any person licensed under this act, set for the catching or taking 

 of lobsters, except with the permission of the owner or owners 

 thereof and license so to do under this act. Every person violat- 

 ing any of the provisions of this section shall be fined ten dol- 

 lars for each such offence. 



Penalty for 

 mutilating any 

 uncooked lob- 



Sec. 10. No person shall mutilate any uncooked lobster 

 by severing its tail from its body, or have in his possession any 

 part or parts of any uncooked lobster so mutilated. Every 

 person violating any of the provisions of this, section shall be 

 fined five dollars for each such offence, and in any and all 

 prosecutions under this section the possession of any part or 

 parts of any uncooked lobster, so mutilated, shall be jprima 

 facie evidence sufficient to convict. 



Deputies to be Sec. 11. The Commissioners of inland fisheries shall ap- 

 point at least two deputies, whose duties shall be the enforcing 

 of the provisions of this act. Each of said deputies appointed 

 as aforesaid shall be, by virtue of his office, a special constable, 

 and as such deputy may, without warrant, arrest any person 

 found violating any of the provisions of this act, and detain 

 such person for prosecution not exceeding twenty-four hours. 



appointed. 



