Ocean City Inlet.

With the enactment of legislation b ythe General Assembly of 1931,
providing certain appropriations for the cutting of an inlet between the
Atlantic Ocean and Sinepuxent Bay, dependent upon like action on the
part of Congress, came further enactments of Conservation laws govern-
ing the seafood resources of Worcester County.

This inlet became an actual fact by reason of the storm of August,
1933, and appropriations were made by the State and Congress for the
purpose of perpetuating said inlet. Work progressed so rapidly during
the spring of 1934 that certain laws which were dependent upon such
progress wero proclaimed to be in effect on April 2nd of this year. The
laws which went into effect were:

1. All waters iu the Isle of Wight, Sinepuxent and Chinco-
teague Bays, except those set aside as clamming areas, u-crc
declared to be oyster leasing gronnds and subject to applica-
tion for leasing for the purpose of private oyster planting.

2. The State-wide laus on oyster, crabs and fish applied from
April 2nd, 1934, to the waters of \Vorcester County the
same as to the other waters of the State.

It is anticipated that by the inlet being cut through and maintained
the seafood life of these waters would be benefited by the salt water
from the Ocean.

Deputy Commanders
Dist. Name. Address Vessel
A. S. Creighton - Cambridge . . .Steamers Du Pont and McLane
lst—G. F. Akers .......Rock Hall Power Boat Murray
G. T. Whaland Rock Hall Chester River Boat*
2nd—James G. Ruth Grasonville Power Boat Talbot
3rd—G. 0. Haddaway - ..Wittman Power Boat Dorchester
W. J. Haddaway .........Neavitt Power Boat Queen Anne
Anderton Hubbard. Oxford Tred Avon River Boat*
William I. Haddaway Claiborne Miles River Boat*
C. A. Bromwell Madison Power Boat Calvert
Robert J. Parks Crochcron Power Boat St. Mary’s
D. C. Kinnamon Cambridge Power Boat Tangier
4th—E. A. Taylor Bivalve Power Boat Nanticoke
Edward Armiger Fairmonnt Wicomico River Boat
5th—A. S. Bozman Champ Power Boat Somerset
Geo. T. Taylor Marion Station Pocomoke Sound Boat
6th—Win. H. Sanders Annapolis Schooner May Brown
E. N. Dixon ...Galesville Power Boat Folly
J. 0. Rodgers........ Churchton Power Boat Herring Bay

Hired for season only.