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ligent, efficient and discriminating manner with which that 

 subject has been handled by. the Baltimore City press, as sup- 

 plemented by the more progressive weekly papers of the 

 counties of Maryland, that public opinion has been favorably 

 crystallized around enlightened methods and policies essential 

 to the ultimate success of oyster culture in the State. This 

 united action of the Maryland press has, douibtless, removed 

 many obstacles which, otherwise, would have confronted the 

 Board of Shell Fish Commissioners in promulgating and exe- 

 cuting the law under which it was created. 



It therefore follows, that the Commissioners, individually, as 

 well as officially, are indebted to the press, and that indebted- 

 ness it re-affirms hereby, with due appreciation. 



CONNECTICUT SHELL FISH COMMISSION. 



In view of the courtesies extended the Maryland Shell Fish 

 Commission at the outset of its work, by the Shell Fish Com- 

 mission of Connecticut, the following extract from the 1906 

 report of the latter Commission, is published herewith. The 

 extract quoted deals with the esteem with which oyster legis- 

 lation of Connecticut is held by oyster culturalists, generally ; 

 and comments more particularly upon the visit of Commis- 

 sioner Grave and Engineer Earle to the Shell Fish Commission 

 of Connecticut, upon the inauguration of the work of the Shell 

 Fish Commission in Maryland. In this connection the Mary- 

 land Shell Fish Commission desires to extend to the Connec- 

 ticut Commission, its due appreciation of the cordial treatment 

 extended its representatives, as well as to acknowledge its 

 indebtedness for many valuable suggestions based upon both 

 careful thought and experience, which have marked the growth 

 of an enlightened oyster culture sentiment in the New England 

 State. 



"The estimation in which the oyster laws of the State of Con- 

 necticut are held by the law makers and oystermen of other 

 States is a source of continual gratification to the Commission 

 and the call for copies of our oyster laws is constant. The pre- 

 vious editions of the report in which the laws have been printed 



