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ASSISTANCE AND CO-OPERATION OF THE UNITED STATES COAST AND 

 GEODETIC SURVEY AND OF THE UNITED STATES 

 BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



Section 87 of the Act creating the Board of Shell Fish Com- 

 missioners of Maryland provides as follows : 



"The Governor of this State is hereby requested to ask the 

 assistance of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey and 

 the United States Fish Commissioner to aid in carrying out 

 the provisions of ^the preceding Section" (of said Act). 



Acting under this manifestly wise provision of the Act to 

 which reference is above made, the Board of Shell Fish Com- 

 missioners forthwith took up the matter with Senators Rayner 

 and Whyte, and with Representatives Gill and Mudd, all of 

 Maryland. 



Through the interest manifested on the part of the Maryland 

 representatives in the United States Senate and House of Rep- 

 resentatives, legislation was enacted by Congress enabling and 

 directing the co-operation of the United States Coast and Geo- 

 detic Survey and of the United States Bureau of Fisheries- 

 with the Shell Fish Commission of Maryland, as follows : 



[Act of Congress approved May 26, 1906.] 



AN ACT to authorize the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to co-operate, 

 through the Bureau of the Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Bureau of 

 Fisheries, with the Shell Fish Commissioners of the State of Maryland in 

 making surveys of the natural oyster beds, bars, and rocks in the waters- 

 within the State of Maryland. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 

 United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of 

 Commerce and Labor be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, 

 upon the request of the governor of the State of Maryland, to designate 

 such officers, experts, and empolyees of the Bureau of the Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey and of the Bureau of Fisheries as may be necessary to 

 co-operate with the Maryland State Board of Shell Fish Commissioners 

 in making a survey of and locating the natural oyster beds, bars, and 

 rocks in the waters within the State of Maryland; and the Secretary of 

 Commerce and Labor is hereby authorized and directed to furnish to 

 the officers, experts, and employees of said Bureaus so detailed as afore- 

 said such instruments, appliances, and steam launches as may be neces- 

 sary to make the survey aforesaid; and the Secretary of Commerce and 

 Labor is hereby authorized to have made in the Bureau of the Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey all the plats necessary to show the results of the 



