State v. Bunker
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Agreed statement. Indictment for taking dams by the defendant, a non-resident, within the limits of the town of Lamoine, Hancock County, March 18, 1903. The case was reported upon an agreed statement of facts and portions of the records of the town of Lamoine showing such municipal regulations as the town had made concerning the taking of clams within its limits.
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Agreed statement. Indictment for taking dams by the defendant, a non-resident, within the limits of the town of Lamoine, Hancock County, March 18, 1903. The case was reported upon an agreed statement of facts and portions of the records of the town of Lamoine showing such municipal regulations as the town had made concerning the taking of clams within its limits. The statutory provisions applicable to the case are found in chapter 284 of the Stat. of 1901, § 37, and are as follows: “Any town may at its annual meeting fix the times in which dams may be taken within its limits, and the prices…
1Opinion of the CourtWiswell, C. J.
After chapter 284, Public Laws of 1901, approved March 22, 1901, took effect, the only statute in this State which in any way regulated or related to the taking of clams from their beds was section 37 of that chapter, since the legislature by that act, in express terms repealed sections 1 to 33 of chap. 40 of the Revised Statutes, which sections included all of the previous existing statutes relating to the subject.
Section 37 of this chapter, in which the language of section 25 of chap. 40 of the Revised Statutes is retained, contains no prohibition against a person taking clams within the…
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