66 BULLETIN 109, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



for the purpose of fnrnishiiig accurate topographical maps of the several coun- 

 ties in the State, to be made out under the direction and superintendence of the 

 State geologist. The said sums of money are hereby placed at the disposal of 

 the governor, to be applied by him to the uses and purposes specified in this 

 act and the act to vs^hich this is an amendment. 



An act providing for the publication and distribution of the flfth volume of the report of 

 the State geologist and to fix the amount of his salary until the publication of the 

 sixth and final volume of said report. 



Section 1. Be it enacted hy the people of the State of lUyioia. represented in 

 the general asscmhlv- That the publication of 3,000 copies of the fifth volume 

 of the report of the State geologist is hereby authorized, and the sum of $6,500 

 is hereby appropriated to defray the cost of engraving the necessary plates, 

 maps, and diagrams required for said volume; said engraving to be done under 

 the direction of the State geologist, who first obtain bids for doing the work 

 from several different engravers, and submit such bids to the governor, who 

 shall first approve the bid most favorable to the State, and order the geologist 

 to make a contract on the terms of said bid. 



2. The secretary of state is hereby required to procure the paper necessary 

 for the said fifth volume, of a quality not inferior to that used in the volumes 

 of this report already published, and have said volume printed under the State 

 contract for public printing, and bound by the public binder in same style and 

 quality as former volumes, at a rate to be fixed, before delivered to him, by the 

 secretary, auditor, and treasurer, with the aid of experts, as now provided by 

 law; and the amount necessary to defray the expense of the same is hereby 

 appropriated. 



3. The secretary of state is hereby authorized to distribute the said fifth vol- 

 ume, when published, as follows : One copy to each college, educational, his- 

 torical, and literary institution in the State, as now provided by law; 200 copies 

 to the State geologist, to be used in exchanges, a list of which shall be sub- 

 mitted to the governor for his approval, and on all such copies for exchange 

 shall be written or printed " With the compliments of the people of the State of 

 Illinois," and the person's name to whom sent; and the balance of said volumes 

 to the members of the twenty-seventh general assembly, to be by them dis- 

 tributed in their respective counties and districts, as far as practicable, to per- 

 sons who have sets of the former volumes. 



4. There shall be paid to the State geologist the sum of $2,000, as in full for 

 his services and all expenses in superintending the publication of the said fifth 

 volume, and finishing the sixth volume for publication; to be paid quarterly 

 out of any money in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated. 



Approved, April 3, 1S72. 



That portion of the act of 1851 relating to tlie preservation of 

 suites of specimens not proving sufficiently explicit, was later amended 

 so as to read as below : 



An act to amoDfl an act entitled "An act for a geological and mineraloglcal survey of the 

 State of Illinois," approved February 17, 1851. 



Section 1. Be it cnaeted hy the people of the State of Illinois, represented in 

 the general assemhly, That section 4 of "An act for a geological and miner- 

 aloglcal survey of the State of Illinois," approved February 17, 1851, be, and 

 the some is hereby, amended, so as to read as follows: 



