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discovery or information from the owner or owners of tbe laud on which such 

 discovery is made; but in all things so conduct the survey as will duly notify 

 the community generally, and especially the owner or owners of the land on 

 which all such valuable discoveries are made. 



Au act to provifle for the prosecution of the geological, mincraloglcal, chemical, topo 

 graphical, and agricultural survey of the State. Approved by the governor, Chas. S. 

 Morehead, March 7, 1856. 



Section 1. The State geologist is authorized, by and with the consent of the 

 governor, to organize two topographical corps — one to operate in the western 

 division of the State and the other in the eastern division — in order to carry 

 forward the geological survey with as much dispatch as is consistent with accu- 

 racy and minuteness, so as to develop the mineral resources of the State and 

 at the same time construct geographical and geological maps, showing its geo- 

 logical and topographical features, commencing In the mineral regions of the 

 State. 



Sec. 2. Chemical analyses shall be made of all ores, minerals, rocks, marls, 

 and other materials of economical value; also of the .'^oils derived from the dif- 

 ferent geological formations, or such as may present peculiar agricultural inter- 

 est: also all mineral waters to which medicinal or deleterious influences may 

 be ascribed. 



Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the State geologist and assistants to continue 

 the collection of all objects of geological, mineraiogical, or scientific interest, to 

 be placed in the State collection, in the southwest room of tlie capitol. 



Sec. 4. They shall report, from time to time, to the governor, all important 

 discoveries, who shall lay the same before the people during the session of the 

 legislature in some public journal. 



Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the State geologist to make to the governor a 

 full geological report of the discoveries and operations of the geological coi-ps, 

 which report shall be printed and laid before the legislature at their meeting 

 in 1857-5S. 



Sec. 6. It shall further be the duty of the State geologist and heads of the 

 geological corps to communicate such information, as may be obtained by tbem, 

 to the citizens of the State. 



Sec. 7. Ten thousand dollars per annum is hereby appropriated to be expended 

 within the next two years under the direction of the governor: Provided, 

 That the principal geologist shall not receive more than $7 per diem, nor his 

 assistants more than $5 per diem, for each day in actual service: And provided. 

 That the survey shall be carried forward simultaneously iu the eastern and 

 western mineral regions of the State by the topographical corps, while the gen- 

 eral reconnoissance is extended over the counties not yet explored by the prin- 

 cipal geologist. 



Sec. 8. The principal geologist, or such of his assistants as he shall authorize 

 in writing, shall have access to the records, plates, profiles, maps, field books, 

 and notes of all surveys of roads, canals, rivers, and railroads which have been 

 or may be made in the State, with full authority to make such copies or extracts 

 from the same as shall be deemed useful and necessary for facilitating and ex- 

 pediting the geological survey of the State. 



Sec. 9. 3o much of an act, entitled "An act to provide for a geological and 

 mineraiogical survey of the State," approved March G, 1854, as is not incon- 

 sistent with the provisions of this act, * * * the same is hereby reenacted. 



