Siew Ee Gr CONNECTICUT. 
REPORT. 
To His Excellency the Governor and the General Assembly of the 
State of Connecticut: 
The Commissioners of Shell Fisheries respectfully present their 
Second Annual Report : 
They have held regular sessions on Monday of each week dur- 
ing the year, and special sessions on many other days, as occasion 
required. They have had hearings at Bridgeport, Darien and Stam- 
ford, and have personally examined most of the natural beds in the 
waters of the State between the Connecticut River and Byram Point. 
They have nearly completed the records of all designations made by 
the towns in water under State jurisdiction; they have corrected many 
errors of description, settled many disputes between adjoining owners, 
and cleared up the titles of many claimants: so that the confusion and 
doubt, which so frequently perplexed the owners of oyster grounds, 
have to a great extent disappeared. With proper adjustment and 
location of the designations heretofore made by town officers in 
waters under State jurisdiction, future boundary disputes will be 
avoided. 
All designations made by the Commissioners are so carefully 
defined, bounded and mapped, as to reduce the possibility of conflict 
with adjoining grants to a minimum. From the nature of oyster 
grounds, especially in deep waters, entire accuracy of measurement, 
location and buoying is impossible. But it is believed that the system 
adopted and carried out by the Commissioners will secure as near 
an approximation to accuracy as is practicable and necessary. It is 
obvious to all that upon an expanse of waters, such as that which 
