Report of the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners. 117 
RECOMMENDATIONS. 
INTRODUCTION, 
_~ Fulfilling the important obligation imposed upon it by 
fee. Section 119 of the Haman Oyster Culture Law, the Com- 
‘* Secrion 119. The said Commission shall also in its report ’ 
make such recommendations as it may deem proper concerning 
further legislation or changes in the present oyster laws, and 
shall present. the said report to the General Assembly of 
Maryland.’’ 
mission recommended to the General Assembly of Maryland 
of 1908 that certain changes: be made in the law. 
‘These recommendations were made in the light of the re- 
sults of two years experience in carrying out the provisions 
of the law. They were the result also of a careful study of 
the conditions under which industries in oyster culture have 
been successfully developed in other states and of the infor- 
mation and views received from the discussion of the prob- 
jem with oyster planters and other citizens of Maryland 
interested in the subject. 
The object of some of the changes recommended was to 
perfect the provisions under which the survey of the natural 
oyster bars is made and to lessen the expense of this work 
to the State but the object of others was to provide conditions 
vitally important to the measure and without which, it is the 
belief of the Commission and the friends of oyster culture, a 
satisfactory industry in oyster culture in Maryland will never 
be developed. 
Although reasons which seemed good and sufficient to the 
~ Commission were given for each change recommended, the 
Legislature did not see fit to make any change in the law. 
As a result the Commission finds it difficult to. lease the bar- 
ren bottoms open for lease or to collect rents due on lots 
hitherto leased. 
ay. The members of the Legislature of 1908 who voted against 
the bill as amended by the Commission may be divided into 
two classes; the first including those who were uncompro- 
- mising opponents of the Haman Oyster Culture Law, the 
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