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sold upon such terms as the governor and secretary of state may decide upon, 

 and the proceeds of such sales shall be paid into the common school fund of 

 the State. 



Sec. 2. It is hereby made the duty of tlie State geologist and his assistants 

 to devote the time not necessarily required in the preparation and superin- 

 tendence for publication of the reports provided for in section 1 of this act, to a 

 thorough and scientific examination of the gold, silver, and copper producing 

 districts of this State, and to make such scientific and practical experiments as 

 will be of value in the discovery of mines and the working and reduction of oren. 



Sec. 3. The following sums of money are hereby appropriated, out of any 

 money in the State treasury not otherwise appi'opriated, for tlie prosecution of 

 the geological survey of the State, and for the sixteenth and seventeenth fiscal 

 years : For salary of the State geologist, $9,000, to be drawn monthly on the last 

 day of each month ; for salary of two assistants, $6,600, to be drawn in the same 

 manner as the salary of the State geologist ; for publication of two volumes of 

 report, $6,000; for office rent and expenses of survey in mining districts, and 

 experiments in ores and all incidental expenses of work, $10,000, to be drawn 

 one-half each fiscal year. 



Sec. 4. This act shall take effect immediately, 



R. BuRNEXL, President of the Senate pro tern. 

 Wm. H. Seaks, Speaker of the Assembly. 



Approved April 4, 1864. 

 Fbeu. F. Low, Governor. 



Notwithstanding the favorable conditions under which tlie Whit- 

 ney survey was organized, it earl}' became evident that there was a de- 

 cided lack of sympathy between the legislature and the director of 

 the survey. This is shown in the annual reports of Mr, Whitney and 

 the numerous lectures which he delivered before the assembly. It is 

 also evident from the fact that, as noted in his annual report dated 

 1869, while a committee of the assembly visited the survey and made 

 a critical examination of the collections and publications, reporting 

 unanimously in favor of the continuation of the work, nevertheless 

 no definite action was taken by the legislature and a bill authoriz- 

 ing its continuation failed to pass the senate; still another, making 

 appropriations to pay the outstanding debts of the survey and au- 

 thorizing the executive to take possession of the property in the hands 

 of the State geologist, met a similar fate. 



Whitney was, nevertheless, unwilling to discontinue the work, 

 even under these conditions, and, trusting in a more favorable ac- 

 tion by future legislatures, continued it on a small scale. In this way 

 a deficit, which at the close of 1807 had amounted to some $8,500, 

 was increased to about $11,500 at the termination of the session of 

 the legislature of 1867-68, at which time the field work was entirely 

 suspended, leaving the work of publication still progressing, though 

 the valuable collections were still unprovided for. 



