INLAND FISHERIES LAWS. 195 



Sec. 5. No person shall catch or take from any of the No lobster 



'■ • "^ shall be taken 



waters within the jurisdiction of this state, or have in his pos- wa™rs^of this 

 session within this state, any lobster, cooked or uncooked, which less than four 



and one-eighth 



is less than four and one-eighth inches in length, measured from inches, 

 the forward end of the bone projecting from the head to the 

 rear end of the body shell. No person shall have in his pos- 

 session within this state any female lobster bearing eggs, or 

 from which the eggs have been brushed or removed. Every 

 person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be 

 fined five dollars for each such lobster; except that any person 

 licensed under this act catching and taking any such lobster and 

 immediately returning the same alive to the water from which 

 it was taken shall not be subject to such fine. The possession 

 of any such lobster, cooked or uncooked, shall be 29?'ima facie 

 evidence that the same was caught and taken in violation of 

 this section. 



Sec. 6. Each and every "lobster pot," so-called, set, kept, Each and 



every lobster 



or maintained, or caused to be set, kept, or maintained, in any pot set, kept, 



' ' i^ ' ' "^ or maintained 



of the waters in the jurisdiction of this state, by any person thil'^ltrte^by °^ 

 licensed under this act, shall be plainly buoyed. Every person shall be plainly 



buoyed. 



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. 7. No person licensed under this act shall use any penalty for 



, J. ^ 1 . ,, , . r I • using any pots 



pots tor catchmg, or cars or other contrivance tor keeping, for catching or 



cars or contri- 



lobsters unless the same and the buoys attached thereto are yance for keep- 



•^ ing lobsters ua- 



plainly marked with the name or names of the owners thereof, a'nd the buoys 

 or the person or persons using the same, and the license number to are plainly 



marked with 



or numbers of such person or persons. Every person violating ^^mes'oFt'he 

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



, . , 1 , 1 !• 1 1 using the same, 



imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both, tor each such and the license 



number or 



offence, and all pots, cars, and other contrivance used contrary numbers of 



' i. ' ' ■J such persons. 



to the provisions of this and other sections of this act shall be 



