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REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 



Close time on 

 lobsters be- 

 tween Novem- 

 ber 15th in 

 each year and 

 the 15th day 

 of April next 

 succeeding. 



Penalty for 

 mutilating any 

 uncooked lob- 

 ster. 



Deputies to be 

 appointed. 



seized by any officer engaged in the enforcement of this act, and 

 said property shall be forfeited. 



Sec. 8. Between the fifteenth day of November in each year 

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

 catch or take any lobster from any of the waters in the juris- 

 diction 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 vio- 

 lating any of the provisions of this section shall be fined ten 

 dollars for each such offence. 



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 pro- 

 secutions under this section the possession of any part or parts 

 of any uncooked lobster, so mutilated, shall be prima facie evi- 

 dence sufficient to convict. 



Sec. 11. The commissioners of inland fisheries shall appoint 

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

 provisions of this act. Each of said deputies appointed as afore- 

 said 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 



