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120 Report of the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners. 
ditions under which the survey of the natural oyster bars is 
made and the reduction of the cost of the survey, are with- 
drawn because the survey will have been four-fifths completed 
before the General Assembly of 1910 will have convened. 
SEED OYSTERS. 
On March 28, 1907, in accordance with the provisions of 
Section 111 of the Haman Oyster Culture Law, the Commis- 
sion passed an order designating the section of the Bay con- 
taining a part of the publie oyster grounds, known as ‘‘The 
Lumps,’’ for the purpose of supplying seed oysters to per- 
sons engaged in planting or cultivating oysters on grounds 
leased for this purpose from the State, and prescribing such 
regulations as were deemed necessary to prevent the oysters 
taken from the section designated, during the period from 
April 15-May 15, being sold or used for purposes other than 
planting on bottoms leased from the State. 
This order was communicated to the Board of Public Works 
on April 5, with a request that the Commander of the State 
Fishery Force be instructed to detail one or more police boats 
to patrol the waters of the section designated to prevent viola- 
ticns of the provisions of the order. 
In designating a police boat to patrol the waters of the see- 
tion set apart for taking seed oysters for planting purposes, 
the Commander instructed the captain of the police boat to 
see that the provisions of the Cull Law were not violated by 
those who resorted to the section for the purpose of securing 
seed oysters. 
As a result of these instructions, upheld by an opinion of 
the Attorney-General rendered May 2, the object of the order 
passed by the Commission was defeated and no seed oysters 
were secured by planters from the section designated. 
The Commission, prior to passing its order, studied the 
seed-oyster question carefully and, in designating the section 
containing ‘‘The Lumps’’ for the purpose of supplying 
planters with seed oysters, it is of the opinion that it not only 
acted within the bounds of the authority conferred upon it 
by the Haman Oyster Culture Law, but that in its action no 
injury whatever was inflicted to the interests of those who 
pane upon the natural oyster bars of the State for a liveli- 
100d. 
