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A few days later, on March 18, 1833, " the resolution relative to a 

 geological survey, severally endorsed, assented to," was passed and 

 became a law. The following is the text of these resolutions: 



Resolution relative to the State map. 



Resolved by the General Assemhlp of Maryland, That the governoi-and council 

 be, and they are hereby, authorized to appoint a competent engineer, whose 

 duty it shall be to examine and collect all the information, plats, and i-eports of 

 surveys, for canals or railroads, or other public works, which have been made 

 by or under the authority of this State, or any company incorporated by the 

 State, or under the authority of the corporation of Baltimore; and the said 

 engineer shall make and report to the governor and council, before the next 

 session of the general assembly, a plan and drawing for a complete map of 

 Maryland, and .such portions of adjacent States as may be necessary to show 

 the position of Maryland, iu reference to the great valleys and streams in her 

 iramecliate vicinity, the practicable routes for plans of internal improvement; 

 and the said engineer shall make further examinations and surveys as shall 

 he requisite, for the purpose of exhibiting the prominent geographical and typo- 

 graphical features of the country ; and also to collect such statistical informa- 

 tion as will be useful, and is generally exhibited on modern improved maps; 

 and the governor and council shall allow .such reasonable coiupensation for 

 the .services to be rendered under this resolution as in their .iudgment may be 

 just and reasonable. 



Resolution relative to a geological survey. 



Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the governor and council 

 be, and they are hereby, authorized to appoint an assistant to the engineer to be 

 appointed on the subject of a State map, v»'hose duty it shall be to act in con- 

 junction with said engineer, and the said assistant shall make the necessary 

 geological researches, and report to the governor and council, before the next 

 session of the general assembly, upon the expediency and probable cost of the 

 geological survey of the State; and the governor and council shall allow such 

 compensation for the services to be rendered under this resolution, as in their 

 Judgment they may deem just and proper. 



The following j^ear the foregoing resolution was expanded and 

 reenacted in a form which was intended to cover all that was most 

 important in relation to the map and survey, as well as the kind of 

 officers to be employed, and the way in which their duties were to be 

 performed. The following is a copy of the act and its instructions 

 as passed by the legislative session of 1834 : 



An act to provide for making a new and complete map and a geological survey of thi« 

 State. Passed February 25, 1884. 



Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the 

 governor and council be and they are hereby authorized and required annually 

 hereafter to appoint and commission a person of talents, integrity, and suitable 

 scientific attainments as topographical engineer for the State of Jlaryland, and 

 also to appoint and conunission in like marmer a competent and suitable person 

 as geologist for the State of Slaryland, and the said officers shall each receive, 



