OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT. 7 
such oyster ground or any part thereof may be situated—such 
notice to contain a description of said ground and the amount of 
the tax laid thereon with the day and year when such tax was laid 
—whereupon said tax shall operate as a judgment and shall be a 
lien upon said grounds and all real estate of its owner or owners 
until fully paid, and that an execution may be issued thereon as 
in ordinary judgments. 
DUMPING GROUNDS, 
Upon consultation with Colonel Walter McFarland of the U. 
S. Engineers, and with his approval, dumping grounds were es- 
tablished off Milford, about two miles southeast from Stratford 
Point Light. Recent experience makes it probable that these 
grounds must be abandoned and others agreed upon, larger in 
extent, further to the southeast, and with deeper water. The 
subject is under consideration at this time. 
Dumping of material in the Sound is now regulated by a 
law passed in 1883. By this law every person about to remove 
mud or other material from any of the harbors of the State where 
there are oyster grounds, must notify the Commissioners when and 
where such work isto be commenced, and the names of the boats 
to be employed in the work ; whereupon it is the duty of the Com- 
missioners to appoint a suitable person to accompany each boat 
and to pay him two dollars and fifty cents per day, to see that the 
material is properly dumped on the grounds designated for the 
purpose and nowhere else. ‘This law was made especially for the 
protection cf oyster grounds, and it has proved effective in such 
protection. 
There is a vast amount of material annually transported to 
the waters of the Sound; and it is obviously desirable that it 
should be carried in such way and deposited in such places as 
will result in the least harm to the oyster grounds and to navi- 
gation. The Commissioners appreciating the importance of. the 
law were anxious to provide for its enforcement, and they made 
an estimate of the probable expense of supplying inspectors for 
the several boats. As the number of inspectors required from 
day to day throughout the year could not be controlled by the 
Commissioners, it was clear that the annual cost could not be easily 
estimated. Judging, however, from the previous year’s expense 
