MAINE. Ill 



Fish and game wardens. — Appointed by the governor, upon recommendation of the 

 commissioners, for three years; bond, §2.000; required to enforce the laws and regula- 

 tions for the protection of game and fish throughout the State; required to arrest all 

 violators and prosecute them; vested with powers of sheriffs to serve process and 

 entitled to same fees therefor; authorized to require aid in executing their duties; to 

 seize game and fish unlawfully taken or possessed and firearms of aliens hunting 

 without license: to arrest, without warrant, persons believed to be guilty of violating 

 the law, and to search and examine, without warrant, camps, wagons, cars, stages, 

 tents, packs, stores, warehouses, and other places, except dwelling houses and sealed 

 railroad cars, where game is supposed to be concealed. 



Deputy game wardens. — Appointed by the commissioners; have same powers aa 

 game wardens and are charged with same duties. 



Guides. — Nonresidents who enter upon wild lands of the State intending to camp 

 or kindle fires while hunting, during certain months, must be in charge of registered 

 guides. Guides required to report to commissioners number of persons guided and 

 other information desired. 



(2) Other officers: Sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, constables, and police officers have 

 same powers and charged with same duties as wardens and receive same fees. 

 County attorneys are required to prosecute all violations coming to their knowledge. 



(3) Game protection fund: Nonresident and alien license fees, fines, and receipts 

 from sale of confiscated game and firearms of aliens, fees for licenses to guides, camp- 

 keepers, taxidermists, hunters, trappers, marketmen, and dealers in skins, and for 

 shipping fish and game, paid into the State treasury to the credit of the commission- 

 ers of inland fisheries and game for use in enforcing game and fish laws. 



(4) Administrative provisions: All game killed, bought, transported, or had in 

 possession in violation of law must be seized, and in case of conviction sold, but only 

 for consumption in the State, seized firearms of unlicensed aliens must be sold; cor- 

 porations may be arrested by service of attested copy of warrant, upon return of which 

 they are deemed constructively in court and fine imposed may be collected by execu- 

 tion; offender may obtain possession of his game which has been seized by giving bond 

 in double the value of same; any officer authorized to enforce game laws may recover 

 penalties by an action on the case in his own name or by complaint; municipal and 

 police judges and trial justices have concurrent and original jurisdiction upon com- 

 plaint, with supreme judicial and superior courts in all prosecutions under the game 

 laws: participants in violation of the game laws may be compelled to testify, but 

 their testimony can not be used against them in any prosecution; possession of moose 

 and deer by a transportation company in close season prima facie evidence of illegal 

 killing; possession of jack-light in any camp or place of resort for hunters in the 

 inland territory of State prima facie evidence that it is kept for unlawful use, and 

 such light may be seized by any officer. One-half of fines for destroying posters of 

 the commissioners paid to informer; judges of municipal and police courts and trial 

 justices required to make returns to the commissioners of prosecutions before them 

 for violation of the game laws; warrants to search dwelling houses in the daytime 

 only, and any other places at any time may be issued by any magistrate; on or before 

 October 1 of each year the commissioners are required to notify the superintendent 

 of every transportation company in the State of the names of the wardens (restricted 

 to four for any one company) designated by them to exercise the right of search; 

 aliens must exhibit their license upon demand of any officer qualified to enforce 

 game laws: possession of firearms by aliens on wild lands or in woods of the State 

 without license prima facie evidence of hunting without license. 



Criminal prosecution must be begun within six years; action by an individual for 

 recovery of a penalty within one year; and by the State within two years. 



