124 BULLETIN 109, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



An act to amend a resolution entitled " Resolution providing a curator for tlie cabinet and 

 other property of ttie geological survey," approved June 20, 189;^. 



Be it enacted hy the General Assemhly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 



1. That n resolution, entitled " Resolution providing a curator for the cab- 

 inet and other proiierty of the geological survey," passed by the general as- 

 sembly of 1803, bo, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out all of sec- 

 tion 1 of said resolution, v/liich reads as follows : " That the inspector of 

 mines, in addition to his other duties, sli.nll be ex officio curator of the cabinet 

 and other property of the geological survey, and into whose care and keeping all 

 the records, documents, collections, instruments, apps'.ratus, books, maps, and 

 other property of the survey are hereby confided, and which sliall become a part 

 of his office," and substituting in lieu thereof the following words: 



" 1. That the inspector of mines, in addition to liis duties as such inspector, 

 shall be curator of the cabinet and otlier property of the geological sui'vey or 

 department, and all the records, documents, collections, instruments, apparatus, 

 books, maps, and other property of the survey are hereby confided to his care 

 and keeping; and, as such curator, he is hereby required to attend to all corre- 

 spondence and respond to all requests concerning the mineral resources of the 

 State that come to him in his said capacity ; to attend to the distribution of all 

 published maps and reports in his hands intended for distribution ; and to per- 

 from all the duties devolving upon such a curator, so far as is applicable in this 

 case; and he shall whenever the general assembly shall direct and provide 

 therefor, cause to be printed, under his supervision, any or all of the unpub- 

 lished reports of the geological survey that may be in his custody. He shall be 

 allowed and paid $50 per month as compensation for his services as such 

 curator, and shall give bond for the faithful performance of his duties as such 

 curator, with surety to be approved by the governor, 



2. The compensation, provided for In section 1 of said resolution, as amended 

 herein, shall begin only with the date of the approval of this act. 



3. It being just and proper that the compensation provided for in section 1 

 hereof shall become available at once, since said inspector is now, and has been 

 for several months, performing the extra duties of curator, as provided for 

 hei-ein, an emergency is hereby declared, and this act shall take eCCect on its 

 approval by the governor. 



Approved I\ larch 15, 1894. 



LOUISIANA/ 



FIRST SURVEY UNDER EUGENE W. HILGAED AND F. V. HOPKINS, 1S69-187J. 



The first step taken by State authority toward a general survey 

 of the geological structure and industrial resources of Louisiana 

 occurred during the latter part of the Tvar of the Confederacy, under 

 an executive order of Gov. H. ^Y. Allen, made early in 1804. This 

 order authorized Judge John B. Robertson, of New Orleans, to 

 begin a systematic investigation of the agricultural, mineral, and 

 manufacturing resources of the State. Judge Robertson took with 

 him on the expedition " Mr. Charles Tripp, a competent mineralogist 

 and metallurgist; Mr. John H. Jones, a skillful ironmaster of 35 



'Plainly from manuscript by E. W. Ililgard. 



