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aforesaid survey and the locations of the said natural oyster beds, bars, 

 and rocks in the waters within the State of Maryland, and to furnish to 

 the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners of the State of Maryland such 

 copies as may be necessary, and for this purpose to employ, in the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia and elsewhere, such technically qualified persons as 

 may be necessary to carry out the purpose of this act. 



SEC. 2. That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor is hereby further 

 authorized to have erected or constructed by the officers so detailed as 

 aforesaid, while making such survey, such structures as may be neces- 

 sary to mark the points of triangulation, so that the same may be used 

 for such future work of the Coast and Geodetic Survey as the said 

 Bureau may be hereafter required to perform in prosecuting the Gov- 

 ernment coast survey of the navigable waters of the United States 



located within the State of Maryland. 



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SEC. 4. That this act shall take effect from the date of its passage. 



[Act of Congress approVed March 4, 1907.] 



AN ACT making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government 

 for the fiscal year .ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, and 

 for other purposes. 



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

 United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following 

 sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the objects herein- 

 after expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hun- 

 dred and eight, namely: * * * 



COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY: * * * For any special surveys 

 * * * including expenses of surveys in aid of the Shell Fish Com- 

 mission of the State of Maryland, to be immediately available and to 

 continue available until expended, twenty-five thousand dollars. * * * 



The following correspondence bearing upon the subject of 

 perfecting arrangements for securing the co-operation of the 

 two departments of the United States Government, as herein- 

 before set forth, will demonstrate the prompt manner with 

 which the Executive Department of Maryland communicated 

 with the Secretary of Commerce and Labor; as well, also, as 

 the courteous and effective manner with which the communica- 

 tion of the Executive of Maryland was dealt by the Secretary of 

 Commerce and Labor. 



