24 EIGHTH REPORT OF THE SHELL FISH COMMISSIONERS. 
Ground rent for signals, —- = 2 2 = = = : $24 50 
Tools and field supplies, — - = = 2: = = es 10 92 
Office supplies, - - : : Z : 2 : 7 : I 00 
Traveling expenses of Engineer, = = = = 3 Es 3I 75 
Postage, - - : = Z E 2 2 L 2 2 8 Bs 
Telegrams, - = = = é 5 2 : 2 = I 02 
Total expense, - = = - - - - = = $1,573 59 
Fifteen hundred dollars a year, coupled with my knowledge 
and experience, enables me to give attention enough to the routine 
work of the Engineer Department to prevent it from getting 
mixed up. But it provides too small a margin for the emergen- 
cies to which all large surveys are subject, and for the placing of 
the large amount of gathered map material in graphic map form, 
and for the revision and collation of important data, the fruit of 
the efforts of the past seven years. As it is certain that no money 
will be expended except for useful and necessary work, it is de- 
sirable that the appropriation be somewhat increased for the two 
years preceding June 30, 189g. 
All of which is respectfully submitted, 
JAMES P. BOGART, 
Engineer for Shell Fishery Commisston. 
