MARYLAND MANUAL. 87

Second District.

John W. Jones........................Chester ......................................Talbot
Geo. O. Haddaway.....................Wittman ...............................Dorchester
Geo. T. Whaland....................Rock Hall .......................................Local boat*

Third District.

Wm. J. Haddaway....................Neavitt ..........................................Queen Anne
Jas. W. Granger........................0xford ..................................Local boat*
Daniel B. Spedden.......................Hudson ............................................Calvert
D. C. Kinnamon........................Cambridge ....................................... Nettie
R. A..... Robbins....................Clocheron .........................................Wicomico
Albert G. Murrell...............................Hoopersville ..........................Power boat*

Fourth District.

E. A. Taylor...............................Bivalve ........................Eliza Howard
W. S. Todd..................Dames Quarter ..................................Sloop*

Fifth District.

Alonzo S. Bozman .. Champ ............... . Somerset
Geo. P. Tyler.......................Crisfleld ...........................................Patrol

Sixth District.

Wm. H. Sanders...........................Annapolis ..............................May Brown
E. N. Dixon............................Gallowayg ..................................................Folly
William Knopp.............................Deale ..........................Brown Smith Jones

Seventh District.

Andrew L. Johnson................Solomons .............................Katherine L.
R. Lee Arnold...........................BIackistone .......................................Murray
A. P. Cullison...........................Wynne ..................................................St. Mary's

* Hired for season only.

The Conservation Commission has charge of all the natural re-
sources of the State, namely, oysters, fish, crabs, clams, terrapin, wild
fowl, birds, game and fur-bearing animals.

The staff officers and State Game Warden, clerical force, Deputy
Commanders of State Fishery Force and Inspectors are appointed by
the Comm....ission. Deputy Game Wardens are recommended by the
State Game Warden and appointments are confirmed by the Com-
mission.

The Commission, realizing that the natural resources have been
rapidly dwindling, started the work of rehabilitation. Good results
have been attained. A great many of Maryland's natural oyster bars ,
have become depleted, and the Commission, therefore, planted 100,000
bushels of oyster shells in three sections of the Bay last year. Catches
on two of these areas have been most gratifying. The Commission
will continue the work by planting 200,000 bushels during the present
year. Although the catch of oysters during the season just closed has
fallen short of the 1920-21 season, the total amount of the shortage
is only 477,627 bushels, the actual output or production being 4,618,467
bushels for the season, which far exceeds the output of 1910-17, 1917-18
and 1918-19.

The shortage of crabs during the present season can only be ac-
counted for by the winter dredging in Hampton Roads, Virginia. The
Commission has had numerous conferences with the Virginia authorities
and Secretary of Commerce Hoover, and, although Virginia promised
to enact laws to protect the crab, her Legislature adjourned without
the passage of such laws.