Report of the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners 11 



BOOKS OF RECORD AND FORMS. 



The Office of the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners is 

 equipped with the following books of record : 



(a) A Minute Book, in which are accurately recorded all 

 proceedings of the Commission. 



(b) A Record of Application fees, in which are recorded all 

 receipts from applications for oyster lots. 



(c) A Record of Record fees, in which are recorded all re- 

 ceipts from recording leases of oyster lots. 



(d) A Record of Rents, in which are recorded all receipts 

 for rent from oyster lots. 



(e) General Application Registers, in which are recorded 

 detailed information as to the names of all lessees, the location 

 of the lots applied for by them, respectively; the postoffice 

 address of the applicant, date of application, date of lease and 

 place of record thereof. 



(f) A Resurvey and Adjustment Book, in which are accu- 

 rately recorded descriptions of the readjustments made by the 

 Engineers of the Commission of lots held under former law for 

 the purposes hereinbefore set forth. 



(g) Registers of Title to oyster lands, in which are recorded 

 all leases of oyster lots leased by the Commission. 



(h) And, finally, a complete set of mercantile books, in 

 which are recorded, in regular double entry form, all receipts 

 and disbursements of the Commission, 



In addition to the form of application required of former lot- 

 holders, 2 it is deemed expedient to reproduce herewith, the 

 several forms of application adopted by the Board of Shell 

 Fish Commissioners, with reference to other classes of appli- 

 cants, to wit : Riparian Owners ; Boatmen, and Applicants 

 Without Priority, under the Haman Oyster Culture Law. The 

 same form of oath appended to the application to which refer- 

 ence is- above made, is required to be made to each of the 

 classes of applications following, and hence is omitted in the 

 publication of the latter forms of application. 



2 See page 73. 



