78 Report of the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners. 



REPORT OF OPERATIONS FOR THE PROMOTION OF 

 OYSTER CULTURE. 



The oyster lands in the following counties and in the sections of 

 the Chesapeake bay adjacent thereto, not reserved by the State as 

 public oyster or crab fisheries, have been opened by the Board of 

 Shell Fish Commissioners for lease for the purposes of oyster cul- 

 ture on the dates which appear in the table below : 



County. 



Anne Arundel 

 Somerset 

 Wicomico . . . 

 Worcester . . . 

 Calvert 



Date of Filing 



Charts of 

 Oyster Bars. 



End of Period of 



Right of Appeal 



From Result of 



Survey. 



June 20, 1907. 

 July 1, 1908... 

 Dec. 1, 1908.. 

 April 12, 1909. 

 Dee. 14, 1909.. 



Oct. 20, 1907.. 

 Nov. 1, 1908.. 

 April 1. 1909.. 

 Aug. 12. 1909. 

 April 14, 1910. 



End of Period of 

 Priority in Leas- 

 ing for Owners of 

 Land. 



Feb. 20, 1908., 

 March 1. 1909. 

 Aug. 1, 1909.. 

 Dec. 12, 1909.. 

 Aug. 14, 1910. 



End of Period of 

 Priority in Leas- 

 ing for Oystermen 

 and Date When 

 All Citizens May 

 Lease Landa. 



Aug. 20, 1908. 

 Sept. 1, 1909. 

 Feb. 1, 1910. 

 June 12, 1910. 

 Feb. 14, 1911. 



The bottoms available for oyster culture in the remaining seyen 

 tide-water counties will be opened for lease as soon as the result of 

 the surveys of the oyster grounds can be tabulated and the charts 

 of the natural oyster bars constructed and printed, the last probablv 

 not later than December 31, 191 1. 



The number of applications which have been received for leases 

 to lands for the purposes of oyster culture ; the number of leases 

 which have been granted; the area and location of each leased lot; 

 the number and location of leased lots on which rents have not been 

 paid; the number and location of lots to which the leases have been 

 cancelled; the number, area and location of the lots to which leases 

 are now valid and the name and address of each lessee, are given 

 in a series of statistical tables on pages 79 to 92. 



The number of lessees of oyster lands and the area leased for the 

 purposes of oyster culture reported herein, is clearly no indication 

 of the interest in oyster culture which exists in Maryland nor a 

 measure of the success which may be attained through the present 

 plan of developing the industry. The opportunity to lease lands 

 for oyster culture has been offered to all classes of citizens in four 



