Supreme Judicial Court of Maine December 17, 1891 (State v. Murray)

Emery, J.

By It. S., c. 40, § 17, as amended by c. 306 of public laws of 1889, the taking of certain kinds of fish — "by the use of purse and drag seines is prohibited in all small bays, inlets, harbors or rivers, where any entrance to the same, or the distance from opposite shores of the same, at any point, is not more than three nautical miles in width.