30 BULLETIN 10?, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



An act to create the office of State geologist iind define the duties thereof. 



The people of the State of Vailfonria, rrpreHented in senate and assembly, 

 do enact as follovs: 



Section 1. J. D. Wliitney is hereby appointed State geologist, whose duty it 

 shall be, with the aid of such assistants as he may appoint, to make an accurate 

 and complete geological survey of this State, and to furnish in his report of the 

 same proper maps and diagrams tliereof, with a full and scientific description of 

 its rocks, fossils, soils, and minerals, and of its botanical and zoological produc- 

 tions, together with specimens of the same, which specimens shall be proi)erly 

 labeled and arranged, and deposited in such place as shall be hereafter pi-ovided 

 lor that purpose by the legislature. 



Sec. 2. Said State geologist shall, as near as may be, at the beginning of each 

 session of the legislature, present to the governor, who shall lay the same before 

 the legislature, a report of progress, in which the operations of the geological 

 survey during the preceding year shall be set forth and its more important 

 practical results made public. He shall also furnish such estimates as he shall 

 deem proper of the amt>unt of the appi-opriation Avhich shall be required for the 

 continuation of the survey. His repoit shall also embrace the amount of ex- 

 pense incurred up to that period. 



Sec. 3. On the completion of the survey the State geologist shall prepare and 

 present to the governor a full and comprehensive report, embodying the results 

 of the entire survey, with proper maps, diagrams, and drawings of the same; 

 and the secretary of state is hereby directed to obtain the copyright for the 

 same, as also of the annual reports of said geologist for the benefit of this State. 



Sec. 4. Whenever one or more volumes of the geological survey herein pro- 

 vided for shall lie published, the governor and secretary of state may cause such 

 books to be sold upon the most advantageous terms to the State; and any 

 moneys derived from siich sales sliall lie placed to the couunon school fund of 

 the State. 



Sec. 5. The .said geologist shall prepare for and .superintend the publication 

 of his reports of the final results of tiie survey provided for in this act, and he 

 shall present to the legislature an estimate of the cost of such publication. 



Sec. 0. The Slate geologist shall receive for liis compensation the sum of 

 .f6,000 per annum, payable monthly, and his assistants shall receive such com- 

 pensation as shall be determined upon by the governor and said geologist, 

 which, together with the salary of the State geoh>gist, .shall be audited by the 

 State controller, and paid out of the amount herein appropriated, or out of such 

 appropriation as shall hereafter be made for that purpose: Provided, That the 

 compen.sation herein allowed shall !)e paid «inly from the time they shall enter 

 upon the performance of their dtities. 



Sec. 7. Whenever the said .7. D. Whitney shall notify (he governor of his 

 acceptance of the appointment herein made, the governor shall cause to be 

 i.ssued to said Whitney his commis.sion under the seal of State; and if the said 

 Whitney shall decline to serve as said geologist, or die, or become unable to 

 prosecute said survey, the govei'nor of this State is hereby authorized to appoint 

 some suitable person to prosecute said survey. 



Sec. 8. The sum of ,$20,000 is hereby set apart out of any moneys in the State 

 treasury not otherwi.se appropriated, as a .special fund for the payment of the 

 expenses incurred by said .surveyor. 



Sec. 9. This act shall take effect fi-oni and after its passage. 



Approved April 21, 1860. 



