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niination of their character and agricultural adaptation ; the investigation 

 of all deposits of brines, coal, nmrl, clay, gypsum, lime, petroleum, metals, 

 and metallic ores, building stone, marble, gritstone, materials for mortar 

 and cement, mineral paint, and all other productions of the geological world 

 within the limits of this State caijahle of being converted to the uses of man. 



Siic. n. It shall be the duty of the director to collect ample materials for the 

 Illustration of every department of geology and mineralogy of the State and to 

 determine, c.it.'.logue and label the same, and prepare them for exhibition to the 

 citizens of the State in suitable cases in the museums of the State University 

 ond State Agricultural College, and the State Normal School, and such other 

 colli'ges of the State as may make application to the board prior to the takiug of 

 tlie geological survey, and obligate such college to pay the extra expense neces- 

 sarily incurred in furnisiiing such specimens. 



Sec. G. It shall be the dutj- of the director to furnish annually to the board a 

 report of the progress of tlie survey, and as often as possible a coudenstd st.ite- 

 nieut of imi)ortant and interesting facts for geneial circulation, and, as soon as 

 the progress of tlie woik will jiermit, to begin, and on the completion of the sur- 

 vey to finish a complete memoir upon the geology of the State, under the direc- 

 tion of the board, embracing such an account of all its mineral and agiicnltural 

 resources as is usual in works of that character, and a delineation of its geology 

 opon the map of the State and such other diagrams and illustrations as may be 

 needed to set forth in a creditable, intelligible, and as far as iiossilile popular 

 manner the nature, location, and extent of the geological and agricultural re- 

 sources of the State. 



Sec. 7. The one-half part of all appropriations made shall be expended in the 

 Upper Peninsula, and such one-half shall be devoted, among other things, to the 

 collection of statistics and history of the mineial, manufacturing, and transpor- 

 tation interests; to the compilation and preparation of full and accurate m:ips 

 ehowing the topography, geology, and timber, as also the position of mines, fur- 

 naces, roads, and improvements; to the determination of the position and struc- 

 ture of the minerals and mineral rocks; to compiling and collecting all useful 

 knowledge that would be of iiractical value in finding and extr;icting ores, and 

 in mining and smelting in those districts of the Upper Peninsula kuowu as the 

 Iron and copper regions. 



Sicc. 8. All notes, memoranda, compilations, collections, specimens, diagrams, 

 and illustrations that may be made in the progress of such surve,y by the persons 

 engaged therein shall be the property of the State; shall be under the control of 

 the board and, in case of the death or termination of connection with such sur- 

 vey of any such person, shall be deposited in the State University, subject to 

 the order of the board. 



Sec. 9. To carry into effect the provisions of this act the sum of $8,000 for 

 each year is hereby appropriated, to be drawn from the treasury as needed, ou 

 the warrants of the governor, which api)ropriatiou shall be in full for all ex- 

 penditures under this act, exclusive of the printing of the reports hereby ))ro- 

 vided for. 



Sec. 10. This act shall take immediate effect. 



Appioved March 2U, 1S(59. 



Joint resolution asking nn appropriation to aid the geological survey of tliis State. 



Whereas the State of Michigan has, by a recent act of her legislature, ap- 

 propriated tlie sum of $S.00O for a geological survey of the State; 



And whereas the United States are largely interested in the rapid develop- 

 ment of the well-known mineral resources of the Upper Peninsula, having yet 



