Report of the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners 121 



The survey of the oyster grounds of Wicomico County has- 

 been completed as this report goes to press, and the work in 

 Worcester County has been started. 



RESULTS. 



The results of the work of the survey party of the Shell Fish 

 Commission and the parties designated from the U. S. Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey and Bureau of Fisheries to co-operate 

 with and assist the Commission in carrying out the provisions 

 of Sections 86 and 89 'of the Haman Oyster Culture Law, are 

 summed up in the following pages, although some of the results 

 do not properly come under the head of hydrography. 



1. A complete series of triangulation stations has been 

 established on shore in Anne Arundel, Somerset and Wicomico 

 Counties and permanent monuments have been erected at each. 

 The location of each station has been carefully described and 

 its bearing and distance from other stations are, or will be, 

 published. (See report "Survey of Oyster Bars." Anne 

 Arundel County, Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1907) . 



2. A triangulation frameivork, permanently establishing 

 the geographical position of each triangulation station, has 

 been constructed for use in definitely fixing the location of all 

 natural oyster bars and lots leased for oyster culture. 



3. Boundary lines have been established and described 

 bet wen the territorial limits of Anne Arundel and Somerset 

 County waters and the waters adjacent thereto, and limiting 

 the waters outside the territorial limits of these counties, 

 beneath which the barren bottoms can be leased for oyster cul- 

 ture with said counties. 



4. The natural oyster bars beneath the waters of Anne 

 Arundel and Somerset County waters and the waters adjacent 

 thereto have been surveyed and the exact locations of the cor- 

 ners of each have been described and established with reference 

 to triangulation stations on shore and marked with buoys. 



5. All lots taken up under former laws for the purposes of 

 oyster culture, which have been leased under the- Haman Oyster 

 Culture Law, in accordance with Section 108, have been resur- 



