108 BULLETIN 109, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



An act making further appropriation of money for the geological survey, approved by 

 Gov. Charles S. Moreliead February 17, 1858. 



Section 1. Be it enacted. That the act of the last session of this general 

 assembly on the subject of the geological survey, and the same, so far as appli- 

 cable, is hereby continued in full force for the next two years. 



Sec. 2 * * * That $25,000 be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to 

 be expended on the geological survey in the next two years, or as much thereof 

 as may be necessary, payable out of any money in the treasury not otherwise 

 appropriated, to be drawn by the governor's warrant on the auditor of public 

 accounts. 



Sec. 3. That said appropriation shall embrace the amount which may be found 

 due Dr. D. D. Owen ; also any balance due for printing the second and third 

 volumes of the geological reports. 



Under these several acts the work under the direction of Doctor 

 Owen as chief geologist was carried on, including the publication of 

 the four volumes of the geological reports of the first series. 



By a letter from Doctor Owen, dated March 7, 1880, Doctor Peter 

 was informed that the " geological appropriation had failed to pass 

 the house of representatives," and that "Kentucky will be obliged 

 hereafter to renew her geological survey, as it is as yet an unfinished 

 work." 



After the death of Doctor Owen, which took place in 1860, the 

 following resolution was passed relative to the property accumulated 

 by the survey : 



Resolced hy the General AsscmMy and the Vommonioealtli of Kentucky, That 

 the attorney general of the State of Kentucky be, and hereby is, empowered 

 and directed forthwith to adopt such measures, by suit or otherwise, as in his 

 judgment shall be proper, to obtain for the State the immediate possession of 

 the geological specimens, minerals, etc., in possession or under control of the 

 late D. D. Owen, State geologist, at the time of his death, and which are the 

 property of this State, and that said attorney general report his proceedings at 

 the next term of this general assembly. 



Approved February 4, ISGl. 



Expenses. — The aggregate cost of the Kentucky geological survey, 

 during the whole term of operation under the direction of Doctor 

 Owen, from 1854 to 18G0, as given in the three several acts of the 

 general assembly, was $55,000, distributed as follows: The appro- 

 priation for 1854-1856 was $10,000; for 1856-1858, $20,000; for 1858- 

 1860, $25,000. 



The compensation allowed to the principal geologist and his prin- 

 cipal assistants remained as stated in the act of 1854 during the whole 

 of lus term. Other necessary employees received such wages as were 

 determined by Doctor Owen. 



Out of these appropriations was paid the cost of publishing the 

 reports, four octavo volumes with maps and plates, in editions of 

 5,000 each. No pecuniary return was obtained, they having been 



