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Identifier: inlandfishgamela00main (find matches)
Title: Inland fish and game laws of the state of Maine. Contains all the fish and game laws
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Maine. Laws, statutes, etc. (from old catalog) Carleton, Leroy Thomas, (from old catalog) comp
Subjects: Fishery law and legislation Game laws
Publisher: (Augusta?)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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nciple maintained was that allwild game was the property of no one, and that towhich no one had title belonged to the sovereign. Sothe King held all lands not apportioned and grantedpermission to his chiefs to hunt therein * * * The fascination of the chase, indulged in for years,became so inwrought in the English mind that it formedthe principal recreation of the people, shared in alikeby nobles, princes, priests and pheasants, evoking aworld of romance and legend in Robin Hood tales, anda sturdy, semi-warlike pride. The exercise formed a school of stalwart, out-of-doormen, whose descendants of like taste have invaded theremotest isles of the sea, and girdled the earth with thecolonies of England. This taste made its fair mark on English verse fromthe early date of Chevy Chase, when To chase the deer with hawk and houndEarl Percy took his way,down to recent date, when Conan Doyles archer sings:So well drink all togetherTo the grey goose feather.And the land where the grey goose flew.
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COL. E. C. FARRINGTON,Secretary Maine Sportsmens Fish and Game Association, The pomp^nd dignity of the chase, its pursuit by thehighest clergy, and the sad result of want of skill by anArchbishop, are quaintly disclosed in the trial of theArchbishop of Canterbury for accidentally killing agame keeper instead of a deer in the forests,of Broms-hill, in the year 1621, as reported at length in Vol. 11 ofCorbetts State Trials. The right of the crown to all wild game, thus claimedand established in England, became part of the commonlaw, and was inherited by the American colonies; andthus wild game in our Republic became the property ofthe people, and the duty of it§ care and protection fellupon the different states of the republic, and in theterritories upon Congress. The great distinction to be ever borne in mindbetween the game laws of Europe and those in Americais that the former were passed for the protection ofgame for a class, while the laws of a republic arepassed for the preservati

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