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June 15th, the field work on the bay shore adjacent to Calvert 
County was started. 
A number of the original stations erected by the United States 
Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1908, were found to be destroyed 
and these had to be re-established. ‘The class of work, being dif- 
ferent from the methods of examination used on the original 
surveys, required some days to perfect in order to get green crews 
broken in. 
Some of the protested areas to be re-examined covered several 
thousand acres and these had to be sub-divided in areas of from 
100 to 150 acres. Temporary flag buoys were used for this pur- 
pose and the steamer or launch (according to depth of water) was 
manoeuvered to mark the sections before the dredge boat started 
to work. The schooner “John Martin” was commanded by Cap- 
tain Tal Mister, an experienced dredger ; and was equipped with 
two dredges, power yawl and gasoline winders. 
When the dredge boat started on a section, as marked out by the 
engineers, her time was taken (which was one-half hour to sec- 
tion). Two dredges were used when the wind was sufficiently 
strong for the schooner to pull them, but this was seldom; most 
of the time it was necessary to assist the schooner with the gasoline 
yawl. By this means we were able to work in calm weather. The 
westerly side of the bay adjacent to Calvert and St. Mary’s 
counties was completed by July 15, 1914. Arrangements were 
‘then made to start re-examination work in the waters of Somerset 
County and the steamer took on coal and provisions in Baltimore 
and buoys and stone anchors at the buoy station in Miles River. 
Examination work was started in the vicinity of Kedges Straits, 
Somerset County, July 21st; and the balance of the month was 
spent in Tangier Sound and tributaries. 
Re-examination in the Choptank River, Dorchester and Talbot 
counties was started August 4th, and completed August 28th. A 
smaller and lighter dredging schooner, the “Nannie Gertrude,” 
replaced the schooner “John Martin” and was used the balance of 
the season. ‘The work in this locality included areas around 
Sharps Island and as far south as Hill’s Point. 
The work in the vicinity of Honga River, Hoopers Straits, Fish- 
ing Bay and Upper Tangier Sound was started after the work in 
Choptank River, and completed October 10th. While this work 
was in progress, trouble broke out in Manokin River over the Cox 
