16 EIGHTH REPORT OF THE SHELL FISH COMMISSIONERS 
Providence, and A. B. Capron, of Stillwater, were appointed a 
committee to investigate the subject and report to the Legislature 
the results of their investigation. They came to New Haven, 
and the Commissioners gave them all the information in their 
power, throwing open maps and records for their examination, 
and supplying them with forms used in the work of the Commis- 
sion. We also accompanied them down the harbor, that they 
might see the oyster grounds as laid out, and the methods em- 
ployed in surveying and buoying them. The gentlemen of the 
committee were well qualified for their duties, and they returned 
home not only with a complete understanding of the Connecticut 
system, but with a decided and openly expressed conviction of its 
great merits. Acknowledgments are due to Smith Bros. for their 
great courtesy in affording the gratuitous use of their steamer for 
the visit to the harbor. 
FINANCIAL, 
The financial statement for the fiscal year ending with June 30, 
1888, is appended. In all other respects the Report is brought 
down to October 31, 1888. 
All of which is respectfully submitted. 
ROBERT G. PIKE, | Commissioners 
W. M. Elupson; of 
James A. BIL, Shell Fisheries. 
New Haven, Nov. 1, 1888. 
