OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT. if 
work thereon has been interrupted by engineering and other duties 
pertaining to the Rhode Island boundary. It is now probable 
that in the course of the next year, as all the materials for the 
work are collected, all the maps will be completed and filed in the 
several towns as required by statute. The value of these maps 
to the owners of oyster grounds will be incalculable, as they are 
made under the authority and supervision of the State, and are 
in accordance with the record title of every lot. Each map will 
serve through all future time as a starting point for the examina- 
tion of the title to any lot. More than this, the exact geodetic 
position of any lot can always be ascertained by reference to the 
records which are carefully arranged and indexed in the Com- 
missioners’ office. 
DUMPING GROUND. 
A new dumping ground has been established and buoyed out 
by the Commissioners the past year. It is about three anda 
half miles southeast of Stratford Point Lighthouse, and is par- 
ticularly described as follows, viz.: Its northwest corner is dis- 
tant 16,733 feet east of a point which is 6,175 feet due south of 
the center of said lighthouse tower; from this corner the north 
side runs due east 4,700 feet, and the west side runs 4,500 feet due 
south: the south side is parallel with the north side and the east 
side is parallel with the west side, and the contained area is 485 
acres. The water is very deep in this reserve, and dumping may 
be continued there without limit for many years. The reserve 
was selected after consultation with the U. S. Army Engineer 
Corps in charge of the improvements in the Housatonic River 
and adjacent waters, and it was approved by them. 
There has been a great quantity of material carried by scows 
from New Haven harbor during the past year; and from the 
report of the Inspector employed by the commissioners to super- 
vise such work, it is gratifying to say that with one exception 
the laws have been strictly observed, and no damage has resulted 
to the oyster beds over which the barges are compelled to pass 
to and from the dumping ground, 
TAXES. 
The taxes have been paid promptly the past year, and but few 
complaints have been made about the valuation of grounds. 
The Commissioners have omitted no effort to acquire all the infor- 
mation within their power that would enable them to make proper 
