Report of the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners 9 



Hon. Gordon T. Atkinson, Comptroller of Maryland, on the 3rd 

 day of May. 1906, appointed Walter J. Mitchell, of Charles 

 County, from the Western Shore and Benjamin K. Green, of 

 Somerset County, from the Eastern Shore, as majority members 

 of the Commission, and Dr. Caswell Grave, of Baltimore City, 

 as minority member of the Commission, for the period of two 

 years-, accounting from the first Monday in May, 1906, the Com- 

 missioner first named being designated by the Board of Public 

 Works as President. 



The Board, as so constituted, duly qualified before the Gov- 

 ernor of Maryland on the 10th day of May, 1906, and forthwith 

 proceeded to the discharge of the duties imposed upon it. 



LOCATION OF OFFICE. 



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Through the courtesy of the Governor of Maryland a suite of 

 offices in the State House Building was assigned the Commis- 

 sion for the accommodation of its force, the reception of its 

 records and equipments, and for the like accommodation of 

 Captain C. C. Yates, Assistant and Chief of Party, United 

 States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and his assistants, and Dr. 

 H. F. Moore, of the United States Bureau of Fisheries. 



These offices, it is proper to state, have been ample for the 

 purposes of the Commission. 



APPOINTMENT OF HYDROGRAPHIC ENGINEER. 



Mr. Swepson Earle, of Queen -Anne's County, was appointed 

 to the position of Hydrographic Engineer on the 17th day of 

 May, 1906, at a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars- per 

 annum. Engineer Earle, connected at the time of his appoint- 

 ment with the United States Light House Service, reported for 

 service with the Shell Fish Commission on the 22nd day of 

 May, 1906. 



APPOINTMENT OF CHIEF CLERK AND ASSISTANT CLERKS. 



Under the provisions of Section 84 of the Oyster Culture Act, 

 the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners- on the 17th day of May, 



