No. 21 ] FIFTH BIENNIAL REPORT 2*] 



one, on condition that the United States Survey be able to 

 duplicate it. 



We accordingly earnestly petition the General Assembly to 

 appropriate, for the ensuing biennial term, $1,000 for administra- 

 tive and miscellaneous expenses, and $3,500, or such part of that 

 sum as the United States Geological Survey may be able to 

 duplicate, for cooperative work in the investigation of water 

 resources. 



In accordance with this plan, it is proposed that no new work 

 on the general lines of geology, botany, or zoology be commenced 

 during the ensuing biennial term. Work which has been com- 

 menced will be pushed forward towards completion as rapidly as 

 possible, and bulletins which have been or which may be completed 

 will be published as speedily as practicable. The appropriation 

 of $1,000 for administrative and miscellaneous expenses will pay 

 the salary of the Superintendent, and necessary traveling and 

 incidental expenses; and will also allow, in some cases in which 

 it may be necessary, small additional payments for work which 

 has been undertaken, for which the allotment originally made 

 proves to be inadequate. 



The General Assembly of 191 1 granted the petition of the 

 Commissioners of the State Survey for an amendment to the 

 law in regard to the printing of public documents, authorizing, in 

 the case of the general and special reports of the State Survey, 

 the printing of such numbers of copies as the Board of Control 

 may determine, not exceeding 4500. This amendment to the 

 law in regard to public printing carries out the intent of the act 

 by which the Survey was established; which obviously con- 

 templated the printing of the general and special reports of the 

 State Survey, from the funds available for the printing of public 

 documents in general. We, therefore, ask for no special appro- 

 priation for publication for the ensuing biennial term. 



