76 ( Report of the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners 



bars, it is proper to state that in the absence of a verification 

 of the surveys of oyster lots held prior to the passage of the 

 Haman Oyster Culture Law, and the location thereof upon the 

 regular leasing charts of the Commission in a manner and by a 

 description similar to that which will be used in locating the 

 lots of New Lotholders under the Haman Oyster Culture Law, 

 many controversies growing out of the use of inaccurate and 

 ambiguous descriptions of old oyster lots will now be averted. 



While the descriptions in the leases to former lotholders are 

 identical with those given in the original certificates of survey 

 filed in the office of the Commission, an adjustment and re- 

 survey book has been procured by the Commission, and therein 

 will be recorded, for the settlement of future controversies, if 

 any, arising out of the boundaries of lotholders under former 

 law, the descriptions of these lots readjusted, as above indi- 

 cated. 



The number of oyster lots taken up prior to the passage of 

 the Oyster Culture Act of 1906 applied for under the new law 

 resurveyed and checked to October 1, 1907, are as follows :* 



Anne Arundel County 



Applied for and resurveyed under old law 16 



Applied for under new law. 17 



Surveyed under new law 12 



Somerset County 



Applied for and resurveyed under old law 280 



Wicomico County 



Applied for and resurveyed under old lawt 33 



*See pages 97 and 102. 



tThelots in the remaining waters of Wicomico County will be resur- 

 veyed during the period occupied by the survey of the oyster grounds 

 of the county. 



