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Sec. 2. The State geologist Is hereby i-equired to complete the geological 

 survey of the State on or before the 1st day of January, 1870, and to prepare 

 a full and complete report of said survey, accompanied by such maps and draw- 

 ings as may be necessary to illustrate the same, and transmit them to the 

 govcrnf»r, who shall lay a copy of such reports before the general assembly. 



Sec. 3. On or before the first Monday in each year the State geologist shall 

 prepare carefnl statements of his accounts with the survey for the previous year, 

 embodj-ing them in the form of a financial report, and send the same to the 

 governor, together with such vouchers as it may be practicable for him to ob- 

 tain ; and the governor shall lay the whole before the general assembly, to- 

 gether with the report of progress of the State geologist. 



Sec. 4. All acts and parts of acts in contravention of the provisions of this 

 act are hereby repealed. 



Sec. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication 

 in the State Register and Evening Statesinaji. 



Approved April S, 1S68. 



I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the loiva Evening 

 Btaicsman, April 17, 1S6S, raid in the dally State Register, April 19, 1888. 



Ed. Wright, Secretary of State. 



The thirteenth general assembly failed to make any provision for 

 the continuation of the work, but passed the following law pro- 

 viding for the publication and distribution of the report: 



An act providing for the publication of the report of the State geologist and for the dis- 

 tribution of the same. 



Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That 

 the census board be and are hereby authorized to contract with the present State 

 printer for 3,000 copies of the report of the State geologist as now presented to 

 this general assembly: Provided, the expense shall not exceed $10 per copy for 

 the first 1,000 copies, and $4 per copy for each additional copy. Said report to 

 be equal in every respect, mechanically, to Hall's Geological Report of-Iowa. or 

 to the Illinois geological reports; the engravings, views, maps, diagrams, etc., to 

 be equally as well executed; and the whole to be bound in two royal octavo 

 volumes: Provided, further, that the said State priuter shall, in consideration 

 of the copyright of the report, stereotyi^e the work and retain the plates and the 

 engraved stones and electrotypes, and supply the State on future orders at $5 

 per copy. 



Sec. 2. The State geologist shall superintend the publication of said report and 

 be allowed a reasonable compensation therefor, to be fixed by the census board, 

 and paid out of the fund heretofore appropriated for the prosecution of the geo- 

 logical survey and remaining unexpended. 



Sec. 3. That for the pui-pose of carrying out the provisions of section 1 of 

 this act there is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the State treasury 

 not otherwise appropriated the sum of .$18,000, or so much thereof as may be 

 necessary. 



Sec. 4. That the report, when printed and bound, shall be disposed of as 

 follows — to wit: Two copies to every member of the thirteenth general assem- 

 bly, every officer of State, and each judge of the supreme court ; one copy to each 

 person who was a member of the eleventh and twelfth general assemblies, to 

 each officer of the senate and house, and each regular reporter of the thirteenth 

 general assembly, to the office of each county auditor in the State, to each 

 incorporated college and scientific institution in the State, to e;ich orphans' 



