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side mid 4.5 feel from western end of point. A crab-packing shanty stands about 8 yards I" eastward 

 of obsei ved station. 



Marks. Observed station is center point of triangle on standard cement monument. 

 h'i fen tu es. — ° ' " 



"Monkey" (N 35 23' \V) 00 00 00 4^ miles. 



Point of Island 33 01 .. yi mile. 



"Saxis Church" 82 06 10 2 j smiles. 



Right edge of woods on Saxis Island 86 11 __ 2^ miles. 



Left corner of crab house 98 58 _. 6. 74 meters. 



Right corner of crab house 128 43 ._ 6. 37 meters. 



Point of land on Purnt wood Island 163 01 .. 2 miles. 



Chimney on shanty 301 38 .. 200 yards. 



BOUNDARIES OF OYSTER BARS. 



EXPLANATION OF DESCRIPTIONS OF BOUNDARIES. 



The oyster bars of Somerset County are 37 in number, and their total area, as marked 

 out by buoys placed by the hydrographic engineer of the Commission, is 27,566 acres. 

 As provided by law, the boundaries of the oyster bars are all straight lines, but they 

 inclose areas of all shapes from triangles to complicated fourteen-sided figures, and of all 

 sizes from 3,083 acres to 10 acres." The sides vary in length from 130 to 6,800 yards, 

 and in some cases the corners of the boundaries are practically at the triangulation 

 stations from which they are located, while in other instances they are over 13,600 yards 

 from the landmarks most available for the purpose of fixing their positions. 



The varied characteristics of the legal boundaries of the oyster bars indicated by 

 the above statement, together with the complicated requirements of the law under 

 which the survey has been made, and the magnitude of the work, with the consequent 

 need of fixed and uniform methods, has made the problem of describing the boundaries 

 one of considerable difficulty and importance. 



The boundaries of the oyster bars of Maryland, as established by the Shell Fish 

 Commission and delineated on the Coast and Geodetic Survey charts and projections 

 and on the leasing charts of the Commission, are technically defined and described by a 

 method somewhat different from that used in other oyster surveys. But it is believed 

 that the forms finally adopted will fulfill all needs of the survey for both the present and 

 future. 



The descriptions have been arranged in tabular form, thus avoiding many hundred 

 repetitions of the same words by making one explanation of the tables sufficient for all 

 oyster bars in the county. 



At the top of each tabular form is given the legal name of the oyster bar to be 

 described, its general locality, and the serial number of the "Charts of Oyster Bars" of 

 Maryland on which its legal boundaries are shown. 



The first column, under the heading of "Corner of bar," gives the number corre- 

 sponding to the corner of the boundary as shown on the charts and to the number on 

 the buoy marking the actual corner of the bar. The numbers of the corners have been 

 assigned by naming the southernmost point No. 1, thence proceeding in a clockwise 

 direction around the bar; but where a corner of one oyster bar is identical with the 



a For'similar statistics for other counties that have been surveyed, see Appendix C of this publi- 

 cation. 



