OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT. 35 
ENGINEER’S REPORT. 
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To the Commissioners of Shell Fisheries 
of the State of Connecticut: 
GENTLEMEN:—This report is for the fiscal year ending June 
30, 1887. My journal of daily occupation, on file in the safe, 
shows that one-half of the working days were occupied in work 
relative to the State boundary line, that five-sixths of the other 
half were occupied in the routine work incident to the effective 
carrying on of the Department, and that the remainder of the 
time was lost by illness or unavoidable detentions. 
The routine work of your Engineer includes attendance at 
your meetings; arranging applications so that they will not con- 
flict with existing claims, or pending applications; plotting appli- 
cations and new surveys; drawing descriptions for deeds; prepar- 
ing the sextant angles to be used in buoying out the grants made 
by you; setting the buoys that locate such grants, and other 
buoys, when requested; surveys of claims and counter claims; 
the care, preservation and keeping of the records, maps and effects 
of the department; the putting into proper shape for reference of 
the large amount of surveyed detail obtained in past years; the 
solution of the problems which arise in making your work a har- 
monious whole, rather than a series of disjointed local affairs, 
and which render the recovery of reference points and other es- 
sential data at any future time a certainty; the accurate answer- 
ing of requests for all sorts of information relative to the bound- 
aries of not less than 85,000 acres of deeded grounds and natural 
beds, extending from the New York State line to the town of 
Westbrook, an air line distance of upwards of sixty-five miles, and 
presenting an almost unbroken line of farms, the same having an 
air line frontage of sixty miles, and often extending in groups off 
shore a distance of upwards of four miles, and in one instance to 
a distance of eight and one-fourth miles. 
