OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT. 23 
months of time covered by this report. Total number of ap- 
plications received is 603. ‘Total area of the same, 90,064.25 
acres. Of this area the sale of 37,435.95 acres has not been ef- 
fected ; the principal causes being rejection of applications and 
cancellation of deeds for non-payment. 
DAILY OCCUPATION. 
I present herewith abstracts accounting for the daily occupation 
of myself and of Messrs. Sanford and Pike, Jr. These are pre- 
pared from my journal and the reports returned to you from the 
field by Mr. D. C. Sanford. 
To summarize: The abstract of my own daily occupation shows 
how varied and constant my labor has been. I have worked on 
nearly all of the general details of the work, and also on many 
special matters which properly demanded attention. 
Mr. D. C. Sanford has spent about two-thirds of his time in 
the plotting of surveys, preparations for setting buoys, and field 
operations relating to buoy work. Work relative to taxes, private 
work for which charge was made, comparing records, and general 
incidental work, has also been executed by him. 
Mr. R. G. Pike, Jr., has been occupied in assisting Mr. Sanford 
in the field, also in making reductions of soundings to the plane 
of mean low water, in buoy work, in assisting in the preparation 
of the tax list, in making a full copy, in ink, of the buoy books 
and indexing the same, in recording onthe triangulation work, in 
signal work, and in a variety of general detail work. 
The work performed by him in the tax department includes 
the placing, on a series of tracings, at each lot corner, the depth 
of water at mean low water and also the bottom characteristics. 
The signal work embraces the inspection and repairing of the 
signals east of New Haven. Also the superintending of the 
placing of the large spar at the Highlands, and some work on 
signals west of New Haven. 
EXPENSES ENGINEER DEPARTMENT. 
Salaries, - - - - - - = - = $2,973.52 
Pay of men not under salary, = = - = = 109.65 
Traveling expenses party in field, - - - - 221.00 
Signals, general repairs and inspection, - - - - 110.04 
Signals, at Highlands and Colyers’ Point, —- - - 66.03 
Lumber, - - - - - - 2 - = 43.79 
