SATE OF CONNECTICUE. 
REPORT. 
To His Excellency the Governor and the General Assembly of the 
State of Connecticut : 
The Commissioners of Shell Fisheries respectfully present their 
Seventh Annual Report, covering the period beginning with 
October 31, 1886, and ending with October 31, 1887. 
ENGINEERING. 
The work of the engineering department has remained under 
the management of Mr. James P. Bogart. Fora brief period he 
was assisted by Mr. John G. Bramley. During the year he has 
been employed in various important duties in addition to the 
ordinary routine work in the office. He has made a number of 
valuable tracings, set many buoys, surveyed several town bound- 
aries on the water, determined many essential points in the 
jurisdiction lines of the Commissioners, and has done the larger 
portion of the field work, the mathematical calculations and the 
mapping, incident to the Rhode Island boundary line. 
Since the 1st of July, 1887, he has been employed by the day, 
and not at an annual salary as before that date, for the reason 
. that the appropriation made for the engineering department by 
the last General Assembly was much less than in previous years; 
and for the further reason that a reduction of the appropriations 
for the pay and expenses of the Commissioners from six thousand 
to fifteen hundred dollars forced the Commissioners to limit the 
number of their days’ work in the year to about one day in a 
week. 
