ii4 Report of the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners. 



delineated upon copies of the published maps and charts of the 

 United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, of the largest scale one 

 copy for each of the counties of this State in the waters of which 

 there are natural oyster beds, bars and rocks, all natural beds, bars 

 and rocks lying within the waters of such county, which maps 

 shall be filed in the office of the Clerks of the Circuit Court for Lin. 

 respective counties, wherein the grounds so designated may lie. 

 The said survey shall be made by the hydrographic engineer em- 

 ployed by said Board, as provided in Section 84 of this Act, acting 

 under the direction and control of the said Commissioners. The 

 said natural beds, or bars, shall be marked by buoys, which shall 

 be known as State, buoys. 



Section 87. The Governor of this State is hereby requested 

 to ask the assistance of trie United States Coast and Geodetic Sur- 

 vey, and of the United States Fish Commissioner, to aid in the car- 

 rying out of the provisions of the preceding section. 



Section 88. The County Commissioners of each and every 

 county in this State, in which there are natural oyster beds, bars 

 or rocks, shall be authorized to appoint some resident of their said 

 county, who is well acquainted with the situation and location of 

 oyster beds, bars or rocks in the waters of such county, who shall 

 aid the said Board by furnishing any information he may possess, 

 concerning the situation and location of recognized oyster beds, 

 bars and rocks in the waters of such county, and who shall ac- 

 company the said Commissioners and the hydrographic engineer 

 appointed by said Board, but only within the limits of his county, 

 in the making of the survey of the natural oyster beds, bars and 

 rocks, as provided by this Act, the said appointee to receive a com- 

 pensation of Five Dollars per day when actually so engaged. 



Section 89. As soon as practicable after the first day of April, 

 1906, the said Commissioners shall organize and shall at once pro- 

 ceed, with the assistance of such person or persons as may be de- 

 tailed by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and the 

 United States Fish Commissioner, to aid them in their work and of 

 such persons as may be appointed under the preceding section, to 

 have laid out, surveyed and designated on the said charts, the 

 natural beds, and bars, and shall cause to be marked and defined 

 as accurately as practicable, the limits and boundaries of the natural 



