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and proper to exemplify and elucidate the same, to the secretary of the State 

 of Delaware, who shall lay them before the legislature, at their next raeetins 

 thereafter. 



Sec. 4. It shall further be the duty of the said commissioners to employ such 

 suitable assistants as may be necessaiy and proper for the full performance of 

 the duties imposed upon the said State geologist, and also to procure to be made 

 a correct map of this State, and cause to be marked thereon, by colors and other 

 appropriate means, the various areas occupied by the different geological forma- 

 tions in the State, together with the beds or deposits of the various mineral 

 substances discovered ; and on the completion of the said survey to compile, or 

 cause to be compiled, a memoir of the geology and mineralogy of the State, 

 comprising a complete account of the leading subjects and discoveries which 

 have been embraced In tlie survey, which memoir they shall transmit to the 

 secretary of the State of Delaware, to be by him laid before the legislature 

 at their next meeting thereafter. 



Sec. 5. And be it furtJier enacted, That the said commissioners be and they 

 are hereby authorized to contract and agree with the said State geologist and 

 assistants for their services upon such terms and for such reasonable compen- 

 sation as shall seem to them just and proper ; and for the pajmient of such com- 

 pensation they, by their chairman, are hereby authoi'ized to draw upon the 

 State treasurer, who is hereby reojiired to pay the same out of the moneys 

 appropriated for that purpose. 



Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners shall receive 

 for their services the sum of $3 a day each for each and every day that they 

 shall be engaged in the prosecution of the duties hereinafter imposed upon 

 them, to be paid as is hereinbefore directed for the payment of the State geol- 

 ogist and assistants; and it shall be the further duty of the said commissioners 

 to keep a just and true account of their own services as to days on which they 

 are engaged in the performance of their duties herein, as well as by the services 

 performed by the said State geologist and assistants, together with the moneyt^ 

 paid and ordered drawn by them, in furtherance of the objects of this act, which 

 account shall be presented by them to the legislature, for settlement, at the next 

 biennial session after the completion of the said survey. 



Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of carrying on aud 

 completing the said geological and mineralogical survey, the sum of .$3,000 is 

 hereby approjjriated, to be subject to the orders of, aud expended by, the said 

 commissioners, as hereinbefore directed: Provided, That not more than the sum 

 of .$1,000 of such ui>propriation shall be expended in any one county of tliis 

 State for the purpose of carrying into effect the objects of this act. 



Sec. 8. In case of the death or resignation of any one or more of the commis- 

 sioners herein appointed it shall be lawful for the governor of this State to fill 

 the vacancy thus occasioned by the appointment of such person or persons from 

 the county in which such vacancy may occur as shall in his judgment be suit- 

 able and qualified for the appointment. 



Dover, Feb'y 13, 1837. 



No change or modification in this law was found necessary, the 

 single appropriation of $3,000 being sufficient to cover all expenses, 

 including that of publication. The survey had no connection with 

 any other institution, being established, conducted, and completed 

 under the act above quoted. 



