278 FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Resurveys are made by the Department upon the application of lot 

 owners, the expenses being wholly met by the applicants, including an 

 engineer's fee of seven dollars per day while he is engaged upon the work. 

 Ten resurveys were made during the year for which the bureau received pay- 

 ment at the rate mentioned, the figures being included in the financial state- 

 ment elsewhere given. The facts and figures in relation to the triangulation 

 and lot surveys are largely taken from the report of the Engineer of the 

 Bureau of Marine Fisheries under whose supervision the work has for many 

 years been carried forward. 



2. Land Transferred. 



(a) By lease to the highest bidder. During the year thirty-six original 

 applications for lands under water, for shellfish cultivation, have been filed, 

 covering two thousand eight hundred and ninety-one (2,891) acres, also 

 twenty-one applications for renewal leases covering four hundred and nine 

 (409) acres. Twenty-six leases in all were executed covering two thousand 

 seven hundred seventy-nine and two-tenths (2,779.2) acres. The leases for 

 these lands were awarded after due advertisement of the applications to the 

 highest bidders. Though offered at public auction it is found in practice 

 that the leases are most invariably awarded to the applicants at a unifrom 

 rental of two dollars per annum per acre, that being the minimum bid re- 

 ceivable under a rule of the Commission. Instances where larger or competi- 

 tive bids have been made are so rare as to amount to the exception which 

 proves the rule. 



(b) By surrender to the State. One hundred and sixty-three tracts, 

 covering three thousand one hundred two and six-tenths (3,102.6) acres 

 have been assigned to the State under the authorization contained in the 

 Marine Fisheries Law. These assignments are classified as follows: 



90 tracts under lease in Jamaica bay 673 .3 acres 



9 tracts under lease in Raritan bay 172.8 acres 



16 tracts under lease in Long Island Sound 1,201.4 acres 



9 tracts under franchise in Long Island Sound 419.1 acres 



129 tracts under franchise in Raritan bay 636 . o acres 



It will be noticed that over one thousand acres of these lands are classed 

 as franchises, i. e. , grants in perpetuity. It is no longer the policy of the State 



