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such specimens of rocks, flora, ores, coal, and other mineral substances or 

 useful materials discovered and examined, as may be proper and necessary to 

 form a complete cabinet of the specimens of geology, mineralogy, and other 

 useful materials of the State; and the governor shall cause the same to be 

 deposited, in proper order, in some convenient room in the State capitol, there 

 to be preserved for pul)l:c inspection. He shall alFO furnish Uke specimens to 

 the Kentucky University, which shall be preserved by the officers thereof, in 

 like manner, for the use of the scholars in said university and the examination 

 of visitors thereto. 



Sec. 7. That, for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act, 

 the sum of $10,000 be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be expended 

 under the direction of the governor: ProvUJcd, hoicevcr. The principal geologist 

 shall not receive more than $10 per day, nor the assistants more than $7 per 

 day each, for the time they are in actual service: And piovuled furlher, That 

 the appropriation herein made shall only be used so far as the governor may 

 find, on investigation, necessary to obtain the services of a competent geologist 

 and assistants during that part of the year when such geologist can be profit 

 ably employed in the prosecution of such survey. 



Sec. S. The governor shall have power to remove any of the persons appointed 

 under this act for negligence or incompetency, or any other cause which he may 

 deem sufficient for such removal, and appoint others in their stead. 



Sec. 9. The principal geologist and each of his ass'stants, before entering 

 upon the duties of their offices, shall take oath faithfully to perform all the 

 services required of them under this act and to abstain from all pecuniary specu- 

 lations for themselves or others in the objects of their survey dur'ng their 

 pi'ogress, and that they will not conceal any valuable discovery or information 

 from the owner or owners of the land on which said discovery is made; but in 

 all things conduct the survey, etc., as will (if practicable to do so) duly notify 

 the conununlty generally, and especially the owner or owners of the laud on 

 which all such valuable discoveries are made. 



This act shall take effect from its passage. 



Approved March 22, 1S73. 



An act providinir for the contimintion of the geoloicica!. mincraloi,'ical. nnd botanical sur- 

 vey now in progress in Kentucky, and for the prosecution of other surveys. 



Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the Commomcealfh of KeniucJcy: 

 Section 1. That for the continuation of the geological, minera logical, and 

 botanical surveys now in progress and for the prosecution of the other surveys 

 hereinafter mentioned, there be appropriated, out of any money in the treasury 

 not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $15,000 per annum for the term of two 

 years, viz: $15,000 for the year beginning the first day of January, 1S74, and 

 $15,000 for the year beginning January 1, 1875. and ending December 31 of the 

 same .vear, to be expended imder the direction of the governor. 



Sec. 2. That for the outfit of wagons, horses, and other camp equipments, 

 together with the necessary instruments for the field and laboratory work of 

 the survey, and for the cases necessriry for the exhibition of the collections of 

 the survey in the expositions held in our cities and at Philadelphia in 1S70, as 

 well as in the cabinets jirovided for at Frankfort and Lexington, and for the 

 expenses of persons employed to exhibit and supervise the same, together with 

 all other expenses incidental thereto, there be, and is hereby, appropriated, out 

 of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums, not to 

 exceed $3,500, as the governor may, from time to time, direct. 



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