4 FIFTH REPORT OF SHELL FISH COMMISSIONERS 
done in previous years. A more detailed statement of engineer- 
ing work will be found in Mr. Bogart’s report appended hereto. 
DESIGNATIONS. 
During the period covered by this report the number of appli- 
cations for oyster grounds was twenty-nine, covering an area of 
eleven hundred ten and one-tenth acres; six hundred thirteen 
and twenty-two one-hundredths acres were designated, bring- 
ing into the State Treasury the sum of six hundred seventy- 
five dollars and fifty-seven cents. Sixty-thtee applicatious are 
now pending, waiting for a hearing or for deeds delayed for 
want of surveys required for accurate description. These will 
yield to the State the sum of four thousand eight hundred twelve 
dollars and four cents. 
Four completed deeds await payment, covering an area of two 
thousand one hundred forty-eight and one-tenth acres, which will 
yield twenty-three hundred sixty-two dollars and ninety-one 
cents. 
Since June, 1, 1881, the time when the work of the Commis- 
sioners began, the total number of applications received is six 
hundred and three, covering an area of ninety thousand and 
sixty-four and one-quarter acres; of which forty-five thousand six 
hundred sixty-seven and eight-tenths acres have been granted, 
yielding to the State the sum of fifty thousand two hundred thirty- 
four dollars and fifty-eight cents. 
If to the designations thus made by the Commissioners are 
added those made previously by the town committees of grounds 
within the area of the Commissioners’ jurisdiction, viz.: thirty- 
three thousand nine hundred eighty-seven and nine-tenths acres, 
the total area heretofore granted in said jurisdiction is found to 
be seventy-nine thousand six hundred fifty-five and seven-tenths 
acres, of which sixteen thousand two hundred one and seven- 
tenths acres are cultivated, and sixty-three thousand four hun- 
dred forty-five and seven-tenths acres are uncultivated. 
The number of tax-paying cultivators at the time the list was 
first prepared in 1882 was two hundred and sixteen; in 1883 it 
was two hundred and ninety; in 1884 it was three hundred and 
eighty-five; and in 1885 it was four hundred and twenty-three. Of 
the latter, ninety-three own ten acres and under apiece; thirty- 
three own from eleven acres to twenty-five acres apiece; one 
hundred and fifty-two own each from twenty-six acres to one 
