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enable him to continue the work. The wording of this act was iw 

 follows : 



An act to compensate Dr. John K. Trask for tiis report on the Geology of the MinfTal 

 Districts and to enable him to make further examinations. 



The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do 

 enact as follows: 



Section 1. The comptroller is hereby required to draw his warrant, in favor 

 of Dr. John B. Trask, on the treasurer of State, for the sum of $2,000, to be 

 p;iid for the geological report furnished by said Tra.sk, and to enable him tu 

 prosecute further investigations relative to the same subject, under authority of 

 certain resolutions passed by the senate and assembly. 



Approved, May 7, 1853. 



Under this act Doctor Trask again took tlie field and presented to 

 the assembly of 1854 his secoral report, entitled: A Report on the 

 Geology of the Coast Mountains and part of the Sierra Nevada. 

 Embracing their Industrial Eesources in Agriculture and Mining. 

 This was printed in the form of a pamplilet of 05 pages. The re- 

 sults would appear to have been satisfactory to the legislature, for 

 on May 15 of that year (1854) the following act was pas.sed: 



An act (o aiithorizi^ and enable Dr. John B. Trask to complete his geolosical esuminatlous 

 of parts of the State of California. 



I'he people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do 

 enact as follows: 



Section 1. The sum of $5,000 is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys 

 belonging to the general fund, to enable Dr. John B. Trask to complete his geo- 

 logical survey of the unexamined portions of the Coast Mountains, south of the 

 thirty-fifth degree of north latitude, and certain parts of the Sierra Nevada. 

 :ind report the same to the next legislature. 



Publications. — The first report of Doctor Trask, a pamphlet of 31 

 pages, contains a sketch of the geology and mineral resources of the 

 eastern valleys of the Sacramento and San Joaquin and to the coast 

 line within the forty-first and forty-second degrees of north latitude^ 

 It is founded, as already noted, on personal observations iviade dur- 

 ing the years 1850-1852. Doctor Trask's first report, in his capacity 

 of State geologist, api3eared in 1854 in the form of Senate Document 

 No. 9, a pamphlet of 95 pages. This contained a description of the 

 geology of the Monte Diablo range, Salinas Valley, from Point 

 Pinos to the Nacimiento River, Santa Cruz Mountains; structure 

 of the valleys of Sacramento and San Joaquin; review of the geo- 

 logical changes in the coast mountains and Monte Diablo range; 

 classification of the rocks of the coast mountains and Monte Diablo 

 range; position and relation of the volcanic rocks to the Tertiaries; 

 volcanic rocks preceding the Tertiary era; most recent volcanic 

 rocks of the coast mountains; changes of level and river terraces; 

 soils of the valley Santa Clara and shores of the Bay of San Fran- 

 cisco: valley of the Salina?: soils of the Salinas; Pajaro Valley; 



