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unsold, in ttnt portion of tlie State, a large area of mineral land: There^ 

 upon, be it 



Resolved hy the Senate and the House of Reprenensatives of the State of 

 Michigan, That our Senators are hereby instructed and our Representatives 

 requested to ask of the Congress of the United States sucli annual appro- 

 priations, not less than $8,000, for a period of three years, to aid in such 

 survey, as the interest and propriety of the United States, within the 

 limits of the State of Jlichigan, would seem to justify and require. 



Resolved, That the jjovernor be requested to transmit copies of the fore^ 

 going preamble and resolutions to each of our Senators and Ilepresentatlves 

 in Congress. 



Approved March 30, 1869. 



An act to amend sections 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9, and repeal sections 2 and 7 of an act 

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

 March 26, 1869, 



Section 1. The reople of the State of Michigan enact, Tliat sections 1, 3, 

 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9 of an act entitled "An act to provide for the further geolog- 

 ical survey of the State," approved March 26, 1869, be amended as to read 

 as follows: 



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

 superintendent of public instruction, 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 the geological survey of the 

 State; and for that purpose they may from time to time appoint such person 

 or persons to assist in making said survey as may be deemed necessary; the 

 length of time and the location and locations where said per.sons shall be 

 emploj'ed shall be determined by said boaid. 



Sec. 3. The salary of the persons employed in the survey shall be fixed by 

 the hoard, and shall be payable only for services actually rendered. Sucb 

 board shall regulate all expenses incident to the survey, and may require such 

 frequent reports as they may think useful. 



Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of said board to make, or cause to be made, a 

 thorough geological and mineralogical survey of the State, embracing a de- 

 termination of the succession and arrangement, thickness, and position of 

 all strata and rocks, their mineral character and contents raid their econom- 

 ical uses; an investigation of soils and subsoils, and the determination of 

 their character and agricultural adaptation; the investigation of all de- 

 posits of brines, coal, marl, clay, gypsum, lime, petroleum, and 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 capable of being converted to the uses of man. 



Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of said board to cause ample materials to be 

 collected for the illustration of every department of the geology and mineralogy 

 of the State, and to label, arrange, and prepare the same for exhibition in 

 suitable cases in the museums of the State University, Agricultural College, 

 and State Normal School, and in each of the incorporated colleges of the 

 State, and in a room in connection with the State library. 



Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of said board to furnish an annual report of tha 

 progress of the survey and, as often as possible, a condensed statement of the 

 Important and interesting facts for general circulation, and as soon as the 

 progress of the work will permit to begin, and on the completion of the survey 



