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Section 5 of the law of 1882 further provided that no fee should 

 be allowed for entry or recording the sale of lands, nor should any 

 fee or commission be charged by said bureau on lands so recorded 

 which might be sold to immigrants. 



The act of 1884 continuing the survey was essentially the same as 

 that of 1880, with some changes in the amount appropriated and 

 with additional strictures forbidding the State geologist and his 

 assistants to have any financial interests in matters relating to trans- 

 actions of their office. 



The act of 1888 for the continuation of the survey provided that 

 the geologist should not receive more than $10 a day during such 

 time as he was in actual service, and that the total salaries received 

 by him should not exceed $2,000 a year ; also that the geologist should 

 execute a bond in the sum of $20,000 to the Commonwealth of Ken- 

 tucky, with good and sufficient surety, for the lawful discharge of 

 his duties. It also further provided, under section 3 of this law, 

 that the governor should have power to remove any of the persons 

 appointed for negligence or incompetence: also section 8 provided 

 that the geological survey should be extended first to the counties in 

 the State which have had no survey and next to the counties which 

 have had the least survey made. 



The law of 1890 appropriated the sum of $15,000 a year for two 

 years, to be expended in the same manner as indicated in the law of 

 1883-84. excepting that nothing therein should be construed to ap- 

 propriate money for an immigration bureau, or " for any purpose 

 except for geological, topographical, and agricultural survey of the 

 State; chemical analyses of soils, coals, ores, and other substances; 

 the collecting of and testing of coals, clays, building stones, ores, and 

 other substances." It also provided that any money received from 

 the sale of publications should be placed in the State treasury to the 

 credit of the general revenue. Otherwise there was no change of 

 importance. 



Admi7nstration. — Under the act of 1873 N. S. Shaler, a native of 

 Kentucky, but at the thne professor of paleontology in the Lawrence 

 Scientific School of Harvard University, was made director, enter- 

 ing upon his duties on August 22 of that year. With the assent of 

 the governor. Dr. Robert Peter, of the Kentucky University, was 

 appointed chemist and A. R. Crandall, geological assistant. Doctor 

 Peter was assisted by Mr. J. H. Talbutt, and Mr. Crandall by P. N. 

 IMoore, J. X. Monroe, C. W. Beckham, and C. Schenk — a total of 

 eight persons, at an average cost of $1,200 a month, including sal- 

 aries, chemical supplies, subsistence, transportation, and repairs. 

 The salary of the director was by law limited to $10 a day and that 



