ELI8MA MITCHELL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY. 10;') 



to discover a "hydraulic limestone" which could su|)j)ly lime 

 and cement for use iu the building of the new State House at 

 Columbia.* 



At the annual meetings of the General Assembly, December, 

 1856, '57, '58 and 1859, resolutions were passed ordering the 

 printing of the Reports of the Survey, and commending the 

 work of the Geological, Mineralogical and Agricultural Sur- 

 vey or. f 



The survey having been established in December, 1855, for a 

 period of four years, was to be discontinued after 1859, unless 

 otherwise ordered by legislative enactment. At its annual ses- 

 sion in December, 1859, the General Assembly ordered the con- 

 tinuance of the survey for another year, with Mr. Lieber in 

 charge. At a later date in the same session, however, a resolu- 

 tion making the usual appropriation ($3,000) for the salary and 

 expenses of the geologist for the year 1860 failed to pass the 

 General Assembly; and the survey was necessarily discontinued. 

 Lieber did not resign his position, however, until April 2, 1860, 

 for reasons which can best be stated in his own language ::|: 



My resignation has been pobtponed until the present time, becanse I 

 desired first to complete my last Report in such a manner that it might, 

 together with those previously published, embrace the statements concerning 

 everything of any importance which had been observed or effected during the 

 fowr years of my service. This fourth Report, therefore, contains several 

 chapters of a general character, and others referring to portions of the State 

 where the survey had not yet advanced to completion. Believing that such 

 work of reference would be of little practical value without a glossary and 

 index, I have prepared one for the four Reports, and now append it. 



The arrangement and writing these matters, and seeing the entire Report 

 through the press, has occupied me three months. 'g 



By way of further statement of the objects of this survei/, I 

 cannot do better than insert here a few extracts from the Intro- 



*See Lieber's Second Annual Report, 1857, p. 117; and Senate .lourual for 18.50. pp. 142 

 and 143. At the same session of the General Assembly a resolution was adopted in the 

 Senate, instructing the State Geologist to deposit in the cabinet of the S. C. College com- 

 plete and duplicate sets of the rocks and fossils collected during the survey of the State, 

 all to be properly arranged and labeled. But I find no record showing tliat the House 

 of Representatives concurred in the resolution. (See Senate .Journal, 185(i, p. 14U). 



fReports and Resolutions of S. C, 1856, pp. 317-319; and Ibid., 1858, p. 41.5. 



JFourth Annual Report (1859), p. v. . 



gThe General Assembly, at its session in December, 18Gn, appropriated the sum of 

 $750.00 to pay Mr. Lieber for his services during these additional three months. 



