GEOLOGICAI^ AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEYS. 115 



By the act of April 26, 1880, the amount appropriated for geo- 

 logical investigations, including the per diem of the director " whilst 

 actually engaged in the direction of the survey," and the salaries of 

 his assistants and their field expenses was $4,000 a year; for the con- 

 tinuation of the topographical survey and the work on the Sttite 

 map, $2,000; for chemical analyses, $600; for research concerning 

 building stones, $2rj0; for the examination and report upon the water 

 power of the State, $500 ; for the expenses of the office of the survey 

 immigration and the State cabinet, 5|>r)00; and for the continuing of 

 the photographing of the State, $500. 



Sections 4 to 6 of this act provided, further; 



4. That the governor shall, at this and each regular meeting of the legisla- 

 ture, appoint a State geologist, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, 

 for the term of two years, or until his successor is appointed and qualified, who 

 shall reside at Frankfort, and be there at all times when not engaged in the 

 necessary surveys, and who shall also be a commissioner of immigration. Said 

 commissioner shall attend to the office work of the survey, and, in addition 

 thereto, he shall collect, compile, publish, and circulate, in such manner and by 

 fiuch agencies, and in such places as he may deem proper and advisable, in the 

 United States and in foreign countries, pamphlets and other publications de- 

 scriptive of the resources and advantages of this State, and such other facts 

 and information having a tendency to attract and promote immigration, and 

 etheiv.ise use his discretion in the furtherance of immigration, and the bringing 

 of skilled labor and capital into the State. He shall also collect and dissemi- 

 nate such information as in his judgment will best aid in the founding of indus- 

 tries to utilize and manufacture within the State raw products of the State. 

 That the reports of said commissioner, when r)resented to the governor and 

 approved by him, shall be printed by the public printer, at the same charges 

 and upon the same terms as similar work is done for the State. 



5. Said commissioner shall keep in his office a record of lands for sale, lease, 

 or colonization, which record shall be kept accessible to all persons inquiring for 

 such information as it may contain: and he shall be allowed a fee of ?2 for 

 making each entry or record, to be paid by the owner of the land so recorded, 

 which fee shall be used to hire the necessary clerical aid to make the records, 

 and assist in the correspondence of the office. 



6. Said commissioner shall T\ot, during bis term of office, either directly or 

 Indirectly, have any interest in any i*eal estate agency or laud speculations. 



The legislature of 1882 passed an act for the continuation of the 

 survey, in which the amounts appropriated vary slightly from those 

 just given, as shown in the tabulation on page 123. 



The duties of the State geologist remained the same, though a 

 clause was inserted into section 4 of the act providing that the State 

 geologist should be required to keep an account of all moneys paid 

 out in his department in a book kept for that purpose, and to be at 

 all times open to inspection to the members of the general assembly 

 and other State officials. A final clause to the section provided tliat 

 the printing done should be paid out of the fund tlierein appropriated. 



