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bringing the total cost for the 13 years up to $258,600, an average of 

 $19,892.30 per year. 



Puhlications. — At the time of the discontinuing of the survey — 

 that is up to 1874 — there had been published, in addition to the brief 

 annual reports, two volumes on paleontology, one on geology, and 

 one on ornitholog3\ The remaining volumes constituting the re- 

 ports of the survey were published under Whitnej^'s direction, in 

 Cambridge, Massachusetts, permission to this effect having been 

 granted by the board of regents of the State University, in whose 

 hands the matter had been left. 



As originally planned b}^ Whitney, the entire report was to com- 

 prise from 13 to 15 volumes, ^vith an atlas and folio. The act of 

 April 4, 1864, provided that these reports should be sold upon such 

 terms as the governor and secretary of tlie state might decide, the 

 proceeds of such sales to be jxiid into the common-school fund of tho 

 State. By the act of March 16, 1870, this ruling was changed, so that 

 the proceeds of all such sales might be applied to the completion of 

 unfinished publications. The amount thus rendered available up 

 to November, 1871, as stated by Whitney in his report for that 

 year, amounted to about $13,000. Subsequent acts relative to the 

 distribution of publications were as follows: 



An net lo ,')iitiioriz<' t).p diKlributlon of liio reports of the Slate i;ooloj;icnl piifvcy. 



The people of the Hfafc of California, represoiied in senate and assembly, do 

 enact as follous: 



Section 1. On the npplicatioa of tuiy consul residing in the city of San 

 Francisco arirl representing u Eunipean government, to the governor of the 

 State of California, requesting a set of the reports of the State geological sur- 

 vey, to be deposited in some well known and established scientific or literary 

 institution under the control of the government of which he is the accredited 

 representative, an order may be issued from the governor to the secretary of 

 state or the State geologist, as the case may be, directing them to furnish one 

 such set of reports only to each nation having a consul residing in San Fran- 

 cisco ; provided further, that the State superintendent of public instruction shall 

 be furnished, on demand on the secretary of state and the State geologist, with 

 one set for the State Normal School, two sets for tlie State University, and two 

 sets for the State Library. 



Sec. 2. The secretary of state or the State geologist on th{» presentation of 

 such order, shall deliver to the party therein named such set or parts of set 

 of the reports of the State geological survey as may be designated, taking his 

 receipt therefor. They shall annually, on the first day of September of each 

 year, rej)ort to the governor the number of volumes so issued, at whose request, 

 and to what institution presented. 



Sec. 3. This act shall take eflfect immediately. 



Approved February 2. 1872. 



