40 SEVENTH REPORT OF THE SHELL FISH COMMISSIONERS 
BUOY WORK AND APPLICATIONS. 
The particulars under these heads are already set forth at 
length in the Commissioners’ Report. 
DUMPING GROUNDS OFF NORWALK AND STAMFORD. 
In response to a request received from Col. D. C. Houston, of 
the U. S. Army Engineer Corps, for the location of dumping 
grounds off Norwalk and Stamford, as laid out by you, the fol- 
lowing reply was, by your direction, sent as satisfying the loca- 
tions: 
“ Off Norwalk material should be dumped between the courses 
“southwest, and southwest by south from the Norwalk light-house, 
“and not nearer than one and three-fourths miles to the same. 
‘“ A second location, to enable the tows to go out to the eastward, 
“is south of an east and west course taken at a distance of 
“three and a half miles south of the south end of Goose Island. 
“Off Stamford, material should be dumped one and one-fourth 
“miles south of the Stamford lighthouse.” The practice for 
dumping on this ground is to steam out till the Great Captain’s 
Island light-house bears west and the Stamford light-house bears 
north. 
WORK UNDONE IN THE ENGINEER DEPARTMENT. 
Owing to pressure and variety of work, fogs, rough water and 
other causes, often including the failure of owners of land to 
have with them a sufficient number of buoys and material, it hap- 
pens that quite a number of buoys are yet to be set on ground 
sold by the State. In addition to these, the new sales of ground 
have to be located. There are also locations which will require 
special metfiods of procedure to obtain satisfactory results. 
That the occupation tracings sent to the Town Clerk’s office in 
June, 1886, show, in proper outline, all the lots embraced in 
your tax list, can only be known by comparing the maps and tax 
lists. 
There are not a few lots which the alleged owners seem to 
have abandoned. However, it is probable that legal evidence of 
title would be found to exist on making an exhaustive research. 
The maps of the office are purposely kept in pencil, pending 
the adjustment of lines. After said adjustment the maps should 
be inked, and the mass of information contained in the record 
books of the surveys placed on them. The proper use of this 
