52 REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 
shall be unlawful for any person to set or keep, or cause to be set or kept, 
within any of the waters of this state, any pots or nets for the catching of 
lobsters or to take any lobsters during such close time. Every person 
violating any of the provisions of this section shall be fined twenty dollars 
and be imprisoned not more than thirty days for each such offence. 
Src. 4. No person shall be allowed to set or keep, or cause to be set 
or kept, within any of the waters of this state, any pots or nets for the 
catching of lobsters who has not had his home and residence in this state 
for the period of one year next preceding the time of his catching such 
lobsters. Every person violating any of the provisions of this section 
shall be fined twenty dollars and be imprisoned not more than thirty days 
for each such offence. 
Src. 5. Every person, except the commissioners of inland fisheries and 
their deputies, who shall lift or raise any pot or net set for the catching of 
lobsters, without the permission of the owner or owners thereof, shall be 
fined ten dollars for each such offence. 
Src. 6. Possession by any person of any lobsters between the fifteenth 
day of November and the fifteenth day of April next succeeding shall be 
prima facie evidence before any court of competent jurisdiction that such 
lobsters were taken in violation of this act; and every such person shall 
be fined twenty dollars and be imprisoned not more than thirty days for 
each such offence. 
Sec. 7. The commission 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 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 him 
for prosecution not exceeding twenty-four hours. Said deputies shall not 
be required to enter into recognizance or become liable for costs. 
Sec. 8. Each of said deputies shall have the right to go upon any boat 
or vessel used in the catching or transporting of lobsters and search for 
and seize any such lobsters that they believe to have been taken in viola- 
lation of any of the provisions of this act. 
Sec. 9. Fines incurred under any of the provisions of this act shall 
inure one-half thereof to the use of the complainant and one-half thereof 
to the use of the state. 
Sec. 10. The several district courts shall have concurrent jurisdiction 
with the common pleas division of the supreme court over all offences 
under this act, and to the full extent of the penalties therein specified ; 
parties defendant, however, having the same right to appeal from the 
