204 BULLETIN 109, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



The following is the text of this bill, and those passed subsequently 

 with reference to this survey: 



An act to finish the geological survey of the State. 



Section 1. The People of the State of Mich if/an enact. That the governor 

 is hereby authorized and directed to appoint a competent person, wliose tluty 

 it shall be to finish tlie geological survey of this State, which shall be ac- 

 companied with proper maps and diagrams, and shall furnish a full and 

 scientific description of its rocks, soils, and minerals, and of its botanical 

 and natural productions, together with specimens of tiie same; wliich maps, 

 diagrams, and specimens shall be deposited in the library of the State 

 University and the library of the Agricultural College, and similar speci- 

 mens shall be deposited in such other library (literary) and scientific 

 institutions of the State as the governor shall direct. And the governor 

 is further authorized to appoint, from time to time, as the exigencies of the 

 case may require, competent persons to act as assistants, under tlie direction 

 of the geologist. 



Sec. 2. A sum not exceeding .$2,000 for the year A. D. 1S.50, and a sum not 

 exceeding $3,000 for the year 1800, is hereby appropriated to defray the 

 expenses that may be incurred under the act, which sums shall be paid out 

 of the treasury, from any money not otherwise appropriated, at such times 

 and in such sums as the governor may direct; and an account of all the 

 expenditures of each year shall be reported to the legislature in the same 

 manner as is now required by law of the State officers. 



Sec. 3. The geologist ai^pointed by the governor shall make a report to the 

 legislature, whenever the same is in session, setting forth generally the 

 progress made in the survey hereby authorized. 



Approved February 15, 1S59. 



An act to provide for the further geological survey of the State. 



Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact. That the governor, 

 the superintendent of public in.stniction, and the president of the State 

 board of education shall constitute a board of geological survey ; they shall 

 control and supervise the continuance and completion of a geological survey 

 of the State; they shall appoint and commission a suitable per.son, possessed 

 of the requisite knowledge of the science of geology, who shall be the director 

 of the geological survey hereby instituted. 



Sec. 2. Such director shall have the power to appoint, by and with the 

 advice and consent of the board, such assistants as may be necessary to per- 

 foi-ni the labor herein directed. 



Sec. 3. The salary of the director, and of all other persons employed in 

 the survey, shall be fixed by the board, and shall be payable only for services 

 actually rendered ; such board shall regulate all expenses incident to tlie 

 survey and may require from the director such frequent reports as they 

 may think useful. 



Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the director to make, or cause to be made, 

 a thorough geological and mineralogical .survey of the State, embracing a 

 determination of the succession, arrangement, thickness, and position of all 

 strata and rocks; their mineral character and contents and their economical 

 uses; an investigation and determination of the organic remains of the State; 

 a general examination of the topography, hydrography, and physical geog- 

 raphy of the State; an investigation of the soils and subsoils, and the deter- 



