722 OYSTERS, AND ALL ABOUT THEM. 



him to devote a year to the work, while they continued to 

 pay him the salary of his professorship. 



D. C. OILMAN, 

 President of the Johns Hopkins University. 



Baltimore, February 22, 1884. 



To the Honourable the General Assembly of the State of 



Maryland. 



The Oyster Commissioners appointed by his Excel- 

 lency the Governor of Maryland, under the Joint Resolu- 

 tion of the General Assembly of Maryland, assented to at 

 the session of 1882, beg leave tt) respectfully submit the 

 following report :- 



The magnitude and complexity of the subject, and the 

 diversity of the interests which are involved, has rendered 

 the length of this report an unavoidable necessity, and we 

 shall therefore "present, first, a summary or abstract of the 

 results of our examination of the question, and we shall 

 then give our results and opinions in full. We have there- 

 fore divided the report into four parts : first, an outline or 

 abstract of the whole ; second, a statement of the facts 

 which we have been able to obtain ; and third, the recom- 

 mendation of the measures of protection which we regard 

 as necessary ; and fourth, a minority report by Wm. Henry 

 Legg, stating his objection to some points of the report. 



Respectfully submitted, 



W. K. BROOKS, JAMES T. WADDELL, WM. HENRY LEGG, 



Commissioners. 



OUTLINE OF OUR REPORT. 



As soon as possible after your Commissioners received 

 notice of their appointment, they held a meeting for 

 organization, and decided that their first duty .... 



