174 GAME COMMISSIONS AND WARDENS. 



Revised Statutes, 1903, chap. 32, p. 351. 



Duties: Sec. 35. The commissioners of inland fisheries and game shall * * * 

 introduce and disseminate * * * valuable food birds into the state. They shall 

 examine into the workings of the inland fish and game laws, see that all violations 

 thereof are duly prosecuted, and perform all other duties prescribed by law. * * * 

 They shall, on or before the thirty-first day of December of each year, report to the 

 governor, who shall cause three thousand copies of said report to be printed. 



Powers: Sec 36. The commissioners of inland fisheries and game, upon petition 

 of five or more citizens of the state, or whenever they shall deem it for the best 

 interests of the state, after due notice and public hearing in the locality to be affected, 

 may regulate the times and places in which and the circumstances under which game 

 and inland fish maybe taken; but they cannot authorize the taking of game or 

 inland fish at a time in which its capture is prohibited by the laws of the state, and 

 in all cases where the prayer of the petitioners is refused, one-half of the expenses 

 of the commissioners shall be paid by the petitioners. Whenever they deem it for 

 the best interests of the state, after like notice and hearing, they may entirely pro- 

 hibit the taking of any kind of game or inland fish, in any part of the state, for a 

 series of years not exceeding four. They may adopt and, from time to time, modify 

 or repeal such needful rules and regulations, not contrary to the laws of the state, 

 as they may deem necessary or proper for the protection and preservation of the 

 game and inland fish of the state, in conformity with the provisions of the last two 

 preceding sections. They shall file, in the offices of the clerks of the towns in the 

 territory to be affected, a copy of the rules and regulations adopted by them, and 

 publish the same three weeks successively in a newspaper printed in the county, and 

 post on the banks of waters to be affected, as nearly as may be, like notices; and 

 whenever any such rules or regulations apply to any unorganized township, a like 

 copy shall be filed with the clerk of courts for that county, and published three 

 weeks successively in a newspaper printed in the county ; they shall, immediately 

 upon the adoption of any rules and regulations contemplated by this section, file an 

 attested copy of the same in the office of the secretary of state. 



Regulations: Sec 38. Whoever, at any time or in any manner, hunts, chases, 

 catches, kills, takes, has in possession or destroys any inland game, in violation of 

 any of the rules and regulations of the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, 

 made and promulgated in conformity with the provisions of this chapter, shall be 

 punished in the same manner and to the same extent as is provided for by law for 

 the illegal hunting, chasing, catching, killing, taking, having in possession or destroy- 

 ing of any such inland game. 



Mutilating- notices: Sec 39. Whoever wilfully mutilates, defaces or destroys any 

 notice, rule or regulation of the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, posted 

 in conformity with the provisions of this chapter, shall be punished by a fine not 

 exceeding fifty dollars, to be recovered by complaint or indictment; and one-half of 

 said fine shall be paid to the prosecutor. 



Propagation, etc. : Sec 40. The commissioners of inland fisheries and game, for 

 their department, * * * may take fish and game of any kind when, where, and 

 in such manner, as they choose, for the purposes of science and of cultivation and 

 dissemination, and may grant written permits to other persons to take fish and game 

 for the same purposes, and may introduce or permit to be introduced, any kind of 

 fish into any waters. * * * The commissioners of inland fisheries and game may 

 grant permission to take moose, caribou, deer and birds for park purposes in the 

 state, under such rules, regulations and conditions as they shall establish. * * * 



"Wardens: Sec 49. The governor with the advice and consent of the council, upon 

 the recommendation of the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, may appoint 

 suitable persons as fish and game wardens, who shall hold office for a term of three 



