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taining to the bureau must not, in any one year, be greater than can be paid 

 out of tlie mining bureau fund herein provided for. 



. Sec. 5. For the purpose of establishing a fund for the maiuteuance of Biiid 

 mining bureau it shall be the duty of the tax collectors in the several counties 

 in this State, and of the license collector of the city and coimty of Sau Francisco, 

 on tlie second Monday in January, April, July, and October, in each year, to 

 transmit by express to the State treasurer all moneys collected by them from 

 mining corporations, or from corporations formed for milling ores, or fur sup- 

 plying water for mining purposes, uuder or by virtue of the act entitled "An act 

 imposing a tax on the issue of cetificates of stocli corporations," approved April 

 1, 1S7S, and to forward to the State controller by mail a certificate showing the 

 amount of money so forwarded to the State treiisurer and the date when the 

 same was transmitted, and also showing the names of the several corporations 

 from which the same was received and the amount received from each. Tlit* 

 State treasurer shall I'eceive the amounts so transmitted and give duplicate re- 

 ceipts therefor, one of which shall be filed with the State controller and t]\'.^ 

 other shall be returned by mail, or return express, to the corector from whom 

 the money was received ; and after paying out of the money so received the 

 <'harges for the transmission thereof, the amount of which shall be noted on the 

 receipt filed with the .State controller, he shall retain the remainder in his hands 

 as a separate fund, to be known as the mining bureau fund, to be used only In 

 payment of drafts made for the expenses of the mining bureau established under 

 this act, and oiit of which all the expenses of said bureau shall be paid. 



Sec. 0. Such tax collectors and license collector shall hereafter be required to 

 pay into the county treasuries of their respective counties only that portion of 

 the moneys collected by them under the act of the legislature mentioned in the 

 last preceding section which is collected from corporations other than thopf- 

 mentioned in section 5 of this act. 



Sec. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its pass.ige. 



Under this act Mr. Henry G. Hanks was appointed State mineral- 

 ogist and served until May 13, 1886, when he was succeeded by 

 William Irelan, Jr. Soon after the institution of the bureau it had 

 become evident to the State mineralogist that the fundamental act 

 was radically defective, and in 1885 a supplemental act was passed, 

 as follows : 



An act supplementary to :\n act entitled "An act to provide for tlie establishment avui 

 maiutenanco of a mining bureau," approved .Vpril 16, 1880. 



The People of the State of Califoinia, represented in Senate and Assembly, 

 do enact as follows: 



Section 1. All property of this State pertaining to said mining bureau and the 

 money and financial affairs thereof shall be vested in and be under the direction 

 and control of a board of trvistees of said bureau. 



Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the governor of the State to appoint fi\ e citizens 

 and residents of this State to be such trustees. 



Sec. 3. The appointees herein mentioned, when assembled, shall constitute 

 the board of trustees of the Stnte mining bureau, three of whom shall constitute 

 a quorum. The board shall have power, by said name, to sue and defend. They 

 shall Iveep a record of all their proceedings, and they shall elect one of those so 

 appointed to be president of the bonrd, and shall have the right to appoint u 

 custodian of the museum and other emjiloyees. The State mineralogist shall be 



