54 AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY. 



The Board of Shellfish Commissioners is elected outside the 

 membership of the State Board of Agriculture, and consists of 

 three — W. J. Griffin, Elizabeth City, Pasquotank county; I. B. 

 Watson, Hyde county, and W. T. Caho, Bayboro, Pamlico county. 

 Lieut. Francis Winslow, schooner Scoresby, of the U. S. Navy, is 

 conducting all details of a complete survey. 



THE ACT. 



An act to promote the cultivation of shellfish in the State [of North 

 Carolina]. 



The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: 



Section i. That the State shall exercise exclusive jurisdiction and 

 control over all shellfisheries which are or may be located in tlie 

 boundaries of the State, south of Roanoke and Croatan Sounds and 

 north of Core Sound. 



Sec. 2. In order to carry out the purposes of this act, the southern 

 boundary line of Hyde count}'' shall extend from tlie middle of Ocra- 

 coke Inlet to the Roj^al Shoal Lighthouse, thence across Pamlico 

 Sound and with the middle line of Pamlico and Pungo rivers to the 

 dividing line between the counties of Hyde and Beaufort, and the 

 northern boundary line of Cartaret County shall extend from the 

 middle of Ocracoke Inlet to the Royal Shoal Lighthouse, thence to 

 the Brant Island Shoal Lighthouse, thence across Pamlico Sound to 

 a point midway between Maw Point and Point of Marsh, and thence 

 with the middle line of the Neuse River to the dividing line between 

 the counties of Carteret, Craven or Pamlico, and that portion of Pam- 

 lico Sound and the Neuse and I^amlico rivers not within the bound- 

 aries of Dare, Hyde or Carteret counties, and not a part of any other 

 county, shall be in the county of Pamlico, and for the purposes of this 

 act and in the execution of the requirements thereof the shore line as 

 now defined by the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey shall be accepted 

 as correct. 



Sec. 3. The State Board of Agriculture shall, at the next regular 

 meeting following the passage of this act, elect three commissioners 

 of shellfisheries, whose term of office shall be one year, and the said 

 Board of Commissioners of Shellfisheries shall be maintained so long 

 as may be necessary to carry out the special duties confided to them 

 by the provisions of this act and no longer, and they shall employ 



