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EXHIBITED 
REPORT OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT 
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, December 15, 1915. 
To the Honorable, 
Board of Shell Fish Commissioners, 
Baltimore, Maryland. 
GENTLEMEN: 
I respectfully submit the following report covering the work of 
my division, under your Board, for the years 1914 and 1915: 
After the passage of the Shepherd Act by the General Assembly 
of Maryland and in compliance with same and your instructions 
of May 13, 1914, 106 applications were prepared for advertise- 
ment in local papers at once, and others were prepared from time 
to time as the applicants complied with your notice. 
At a meeting of your Board on the 27th day of May, 1914, you 
decided to ask the Board of Public Works for the use of the 
State steamer “Governor R. M. McLane,” for the purpose of 
making the examinations of large protested areas located on the 
easterly and westerly sides of Chesapeake Bay, Patuxent, Chop- 
tank, Honga, Manokin and Big Annemessex Rivers, Eastern and 
Fishing Bays, Tangier Sound, and Hooper and Kedges Straits. 
The engineer was instructed to secure the services of Mr. H. E, 
Collins as assistant engineer and arrange to start work June 10th. 
A dredging schooner with three men and equipped for work 
with gasoline yawl, to be used in making the examination, was also 
arranged for. 
Mr. Benjamin K. Green, Chairman of the Commission, arranged 
to devote the entire season to the re-examination work, and take 
charge of the work on board the dredge boat. ‘The other Com- 
missioners were to be present as often as possible and when 
needed. 
The steamer “Governor McLane” was turned over to the Shell 
Fish Commission and placed in commission on June 10th, and at 
once was made ready for the work. 
