RKPORT 



ANNAPOLIS,, MD., October 1st, 1907. 



His Excellency, Edwin Warfield, Governor of the State of 

 Maryland, and Members of the General Assembly of Mary- 

 land of 1908. 



GENTLEMEN : The following Report 1 of the Board of Shell 

 Fish Commissioners of Maryland, made in pursuance of the 

 provisions of Section 119 of Chapter 711 of the Acts of 1906, of 

 the General Assembly of Maryland, and, in substance, intended 

 to embrace a summary of the work of said Board from the 10th 

 of May, in the year 1906 the date of the qualification and 

 organization of the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners of 

 Maryland to October 1st, 1907, is herewith submitted for your 

 consideration. 



Respectfully, 



WALTER J. MITCHELL, 

 CASWELL GRAVE, 

 BENJAMIN K. GREEN, 

 The Board of Shell Fish Commissioners of Maryland. 



iThis report is in addition to, and in no way duplicates the report 

 prepared under the supervision of Capt. C. C. Yates and published 

 by the Cdast and Geodetic Survey on June 20th, 1907, in compliance 

 with Sections 86 and 89 of the Haman Oyster -Culture Law, which said 

 report embraces: a technical description of all boundaries and land- 

 marks established in Anne Arundel County and contiguous waters by 

 the Maryland Shell Fish Commission in co-operation with the United 

 States Coast and Geodetic Survey; a progress map giving "the scheme 

 of all charts and projections constructed in connection with the survey 

 of the natural oyster bars, the location and names of all triangulation 

 stations used as a basis for the surveying work, and the 'Boundaries 

 of county waters' established by the Commission for the purpose of 

 carrying out the laws relating to Oyster Culture;" an"d a series of four 

 large charts showing the boundaries of all natural oyster bars, of 'the 

 waters within the territorial limits of Anne Arundel County, and of 

 the waters not within these limits, but opened for leasing with the 

 waters of the County. 



A similar report will, as soon as practicable, be issued under like 

 preparation and authority, respecting the survey of the waters within 

 the territorial limits, and contiguous thereto, of Somerset County. 



Copies ' of these reports may be obtained by applying to the Super- 

 intendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, Washington, D. C. 



