state of BI)obe ilslanb anb |]rouilience JJlantations. 



JA:NUAIIY SESSION^, 190J). 



CHAPTER 437. 



AN ACT IN SUBSTITUTION OF CHAPTER 969 OF THE Passed May 7. 



1909. 



PUBLIC LAWS, PASSED AT THE JANUARY SES- " 



SIGN, A. D. 1902, ENTITLED, "AN ACT IN SUBSTI- 

 TUTION OF CHAPTER 857 OF THE PUBLIC LAWS, 

 PASSED AT THE JANUARY SESSION, A. D. 1901, 

 ENTITLED 'AN ACT FOR THE BETTER PROTEC- 

 TION OF THE LOBSTER FISHERIES.' " 



It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: 



Section 1. No person, either as principal, agent, or servant. Penalty for 



catching, pos- 



shall, at any tune, catch or take any lobster from any of the sessing, etc.. 



any lobsters, 



waters in the jurisdiction of this state, or place, set, keep, main- ^o to do'^'^^^'''^ 

 tain, supervise, lift, raise, or draw in or from any of said waters, 

 or cause to be placed, set, kept, maintained, supervised, lifted, 

 raised, or drawn in or from any of said waters, any pot or other 

 contrivance designed or adapted for the catching or taking of 

 lobsters, unless licensed so to do as hereinafter provided. Every 

 person who shall violate any of the provisions of this section 

 shall be fined twenty dollars or be imprisoned not more than 

 thirty days, or both, for each such offence. 



Sec. 2. The commissioners of inland fisheries may grant or rj,^ ^Y^oxa u- 

 refuse to grant licenses to catch and take lobsters from the grantl™^^^^ 

 M'aters within the jurisdiction of this state (in the manner, at the 

 times, and subject to the regulations provided in this act), to 

 such citizens of this state as have resided in this state for at 



