Selah OF CONNBCHCUd. 
INE PORT. 
To His Excellency the Governor and the General Assembly of the 
State of Connecticut : 
Owing to the recent change in the fiscal year of the State, this 
report begins with December 1, 1884, and ends with June 30, 
1885. It consequently covers a period of only seven months. 
During this time the various duties of the Commissioners have 
been faithfully attended to and a large amount of work accom- 
plished, as will be seen from the following details : 
ENGINEERING. 
The Engineering Department has been under the able man- 
agement of Mr. James P. Bogart, with the same efficient assist- 
ants as before. The first four months of the period covered by 
this report being winter months, little or no work was done upon 
the water. ‘The time was fully occupied by the engineers working 
up the material gathered in their out door work during the pre- 
vious summer, and applying it to the correction of old and 
the making of new maps. In the spring the work of surveying and 
buoying was resumed, principally on lots claimed to be held and 
occupied under town committee titles, and from time to time on 
lots designated by the Commissioners. All the signals along the 
shore were inspected and repaired, and some new triangulation 
points established. One hundred and ninety-two buoys were 
set and twenty-two surveys made, which, for the brief period the 
engineers were employed, compares favorably with the work 
