Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-01-06
An Oyster Convention.

The Chamber of Commerce OF
Richmond, Va, has issued invita-
tions to prominent citizens through
out the State to attend the conven
ton to be held in that city on Jan
uary 10, 1894. This convention is
called to consider and discuss the
oyster question to the end that such
information may be elected as tc
create an intelligent understanding
and widespread interest in this sub
ject, in which every citizen and tax
payer of the State, as such, is most
deeply concerned.
The invitation is issued by Judge
George L. Cheretsn, president o.
the chamber: shttee r. T, egisIat2JjGI,
consisting of Messrs. R. Carter Scott,
F. H. Mcclure, j. Taylor Ellyson,
Levin Joynes, John B. Carey and a.
S. Buford.
The communication contained the
following statement:
while it is not intended that this
convention shall recommend any
decided course of action, but that
each body or section represented
shall be free to take such action as it
deems best, after the convention. it
is fully expected that the discussion
of the subject will bring forth the
most important facts relating to the
oyster question, stenographic report
of which will be printed in pamphlet
form and constitute valuable com
pendulum of information on the sub
ject.
A LARGE ATTENDANCE REQUESTED.
Your attendance on the occasion
referred to is most earnestly request
ed not only from patriotic consi-
deration on your part of the interest
which your section has in this i'm
mensely valuable resource of Virginia
but from the belief that, as tax
payer, you will in the end be amply
compensated for any time consumed
or expense incurred by your attend
ance at this convention.
"Should circumstances beyond
your control render it impossible for
you to be present, you are requested
to Immediately confer with the most
prominent and influential resident
of your county whose consent you
can secure to attend in your stead,
and that you will promptly inform
the secretary of the chamber that an
invitation may be extended to such
person as you may designate.
The convention will be held Jan
uary 70, 1894, in the assembly-room
of the Chamber of Commerce, corner
Ninth and Main streets. There will
be invited as delegates to the conven-
ton prominent citizens from all sec
tions of the State; also, representa-
tives of the planters, dredgers and
tongmen and also the oyster inspec-
tors from Tidewater Virginia; repre-
sentatives of the various commercial
throughout the State;
recognized authorities upon the
question of oyster planting and those
who have given the subject especial
including judges Of those
counties in the State bordering upon
the oyster beds Of Virginia. and such
committees as the oyster law may be
referred to by the present General
Inclosed in the invitation was
copy OF the report of the committee
on legislation, relating to the oyster
question. The report. which was
adopted at the annual Getting of the
Chamber of Commerce on June s.
1898. contained the following:
OF THE COMMITTEE.
1.-THE committee are deeply i'm
pressed with the Importance Of the
of this valuable pro-
perty of the State, containing 100000
acres, and with the fact that the
question has not had an amount of
attention devoted to it by the whole
people of the Commonwealth as is at
all commensurate with the magni-
tude of their common interest. When
considered as a resource by means of
which the present burden of taxation
NAV be reduced throughout the en-.
tire State and from which large and
more adequate appropriations may
be made practicable to the many
necessary public works and institu.
lions. every citizen irrespective of his
has alike the deepest inter
est in it's utmost development.
Your committee is reliably in
formed that the system in effect
prior to the act to protect the oyster
industry of the Commonwealth, ap-
proved at the last meeting of the
Legislature, was source of con-
inuous expense to the State and
destructive to the oyster itself, when
t should have been source of vast