Survey of Oyster Bars, Somerset County, Md. 17 



Department of Commerce and Labor, 



Coast and Geodetic Survey, 



Washington, July j, 1906. 

 Sir: Upon the receipt of these instructions you will surrender t lie command, accounts, etc., of the 

 steamer Endeavor to the I lydrographic Inspector. * * * 



As soon as this transfer is completed you will enter upon the duties of Coast Survey representative 

 on the Shell Fisli Commission of Maryland. 



You will consult the commissioners, prepare a programme of work, and submit estimates in the 

 usual form. 



You are authorized to come to Washington for consultation from time to time as may be necessary 

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Very respectfully, 



O. H. TiTttiANU, Superintendent. 

 Capt. C. C. Yates, 



U. S. C. and G. S. Steamer Endeavor, Baltimore, Md. 



ORGANIZATION'. 



The organization of the party has remained practically unchanged and consists of 

 the chief and the necessary triangulators, computors, and draftsmen 



l-ui Il'MENT. 



The equipment for the work of the party lias been ample and satisfactory. The 

 large living and office quarters furnished tin- Government 011 the Maryland Shell Fish 

 Commission house boat Oyster have been very convenient for the work, besides facili- 

 tating efficient cooperation with the surveying and oyster investigation parties of the 

 State. In addition to the accommodations on the Oyster the Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey party has had the constant use of the large steam launch Inspector and several 

 other boats furnished by their own Service, and the occasional use of the Bureau of 

 Fisheries launch Canvasback a and the steamer Governor McLanc b of the State fishery 

 force. 



The greater part of the equipment of instruments for the operations of both the 

 Government and ,Statc have been furnished by the Coast and Geodetic Survey and 

 consist of all necessary theodolites, levels, sextants, drafting instruments, hydrometers, 

 etc., required for all field and office work. 



CHRONOLOGICAL STATEMENT OF WORK/ 



On June 20, 1907, the "Charts of Natural Oyster Bars" and report'' of "Survey 

 of Oyster Bars" for Anne Arundel County were issued and filed, and the survey records 

 and reports for that county have been filed in the archives of the Survey at Washington. 



In addition to this work, a Coast and Geodetic Survey signal-building party was 

 engaged in the erection of triangulation signals in Somerset County from May 2 to 

 June 25 in cooperation with a signal-building party of the Shell Fish Commission. 



a By courtesy of Dr. H. F. Moore, U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 

 & By courtesy of Capt. James A. Turner, commanding. 



c The field and office work relating to Somerset County is so intermixed with that of Wicomico 

 County that this statement includes part of the work of the latter county. 



d See this report for an account of the work from July 3, 1906, to June 20, 1907. 



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