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muaufr ;iud on sucli terms as they uiay deem proper, for the benefit of the 

 author: Provided, That no additional expense be thereby incurred by the Strue 

 over and abo\e the sum of $1,500 aforesaid. 



Exjjense. — The resolution establishing the survey makes no refer- 

 ences to expenses or appropriations. Nothing is stated us to anunint 

 paid Professor Shepard for services, but in the bill of 1837, $500 

 was appro})riated for the publication of his report. Percival, in his 

 lamentations, ^vrites of httving received $3,000 in salary, and, as above 

 noted, $1,.')00 was appropriated for publication. The expense of the 

 survey can then be placed at $5,000, exclusive of Professor Shepard's 

 salar3% which it is safe to say was small, if indeed he received any- 

 thing. 



Bv an act approved June 3. 1003, a second survey, geological and 

 r.atural history, was established under control of a board of commis- 

 sioners, with Prof. William North Pice, superintendent. This sur- 

 vey is still in progress.^ 



DELAWARE.^ 



The first atid only systematic attempt at a geological survey of 

 Delaware was mndc in 1837, in virtue of an act of the legislature, 

 of which the following is a transcript : 



Aij a('( to provide for a ueolosiical iind iiiincriiiojiirMl siirvrv oT tl]is Stati'. 



Section L Be it ouictcd hy ihe sciiale and fwusc of representatives of the 

 State of Dclaivarc in general assembly met, That Tliomas Stockton, of New 

 Castle County; Jonatiian Jenltins, of Kent County; and Dr. Henry F. Hall, of 

 Sussex County, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to procure to 

 be made a geological and mineralogical survey of this State. And it shall be 

 the duty of the said conunissiouers, as soon as practicable after the passage of 

 this act, to appoint a State geologist of talents, integrity, and suitable scientific 

 and practical knowledge of liis profession, wlio shall also be a scientific and 

 practical mineralogist. 



Sec. 2. And it shall be the duty of the said State geologist iunnediaiely to 

 commence and carry on with as much expedition and despatch as may be con- 

 sistent with minuteness and accuracy, a geological and mineralogical survey of 

 the State, with a view to deterriiine the order, succession, ari-angement, relative 

 S>osition, and the dip or inclination, and also the comparative magnitude of the 

 several strata, or geological formations, within the State, and to discover and 

 examine all beds and deposits of ores, coals, clays, marls, and such other 

 mineral substances as may be deemed useful or valuable, together with such 

 other duties as may be necessary to make a full and complete geological and 

 mineralogical survey of this State. 



Sec. 3. And it shall be further the duty of the said State geologist, on or 

 before th(^ first day of .January in each and every year during the time neces- 

 sarily occupied I)y the survey, to make a leport of the progress of the survey, 

 accompanied witli such niai»s, drawings, and specimens as may be necessary 



Spo lUilU'tin 405. T'. S. Goolotrical Survey . 191]. 

 Conipilod in i):ul from inamiscript. hy .(. C. Booth. 



