18 FIFTH REPORT OF SHELL FISH COMMISSIONERS 
serious as Mr. Rowe supposed. At all events no report has 
reached the Commissioners of the appearance of these worms in 
any damaging quantities on any other grounds. 
The financial statement covering the period of seven months 
ending with June 30, 1885, is hereto appended. All the laws re- 
lating to shell fisheries passed at the last session of the Legislature 
will be found in the appendix, except the law ratifying and con- 
firming the locations and descriptions of the natural beds in the 
State, such locations and descriptions having been published in 
full in last year’s report. 
All of which is respectfully submitted, this first day of July, 
AG ADE Koos: 
ROBERT G., PIKE, Commuisstoners of 
WILLIAM M. HUDSON, 
JAMES A. BILL Shell Fishertes, 
