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Of this sum, as will be noted, $15,500 was received from the State 

 treasurer as the proceeds of the laws of 1872-73 making direct 

 appropriations for its support, and $46,104.97 was derived from tlie 

 sale of salt spring lands. 



Publications. — The legislature of 1876 passed the following law 

 relating to the printing of the annual reports of progress of the 

 survey : 



Be it enacted by the Legislature of tJw State of Minnesota: 



Section 1. Oue thousand copies of that portion of the annual report of the 

 board of regents of the University of Minnesota which embraces the report 

 of the State geologist on the progress of geological and natural history survey 

 of the State shall hereafter be paged and bound separately, and shall be sub- 

 ject to the disposition of the said board of regents. 



Sec. 2. Whenever in the progress of said survey a full and final report shall 

 be made on the geology of any of the counties of the State, 500 extra copies of 

 each countj' report so made by the board of regents shall be printed for the 

 use of the counties so reported on, said copies being subject to the order of the 

 county commissioners of said county. 



This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 



Approved March 6, 1876. 



The legislature of 1885 also made provision for the publication of 

 the final report of the survey by the enactment of the following 

 general law : 



Be it enacted hy the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: 



Section 1. The governor, the secretary of state and the State geologist are 

 hereby created a commission for the printing and publication of the reports 

 of the regents of the university on the geological and natural history survey 

 of the State. 



Sec. 2. It shall be their duty to supervise the printing of the final reports 

 of said survey and the engraving of the accompanying maps and illustrations, 

 in such style and manner as they shall determine and judge best calculated 

 to exhibit to the people of the State the natural resources of the State as re- 

 quired by the law creating the geological and natural history survey. 



Sec. 3. They shall cause to be republished in the same manner the third, 

 fourth, and fifth reports of progress of said survey at as early a date as prac- 

 ticable, in an edition of 2,000 copies. 



Sec. 4. The volumes of the final report of said survey, as they may be pre- 

 pared by the State geologist from time to time, shall be issued in an edition 

 of 5,000 copies each, and shall be distributed, in the name of the board of 

 regents of the university, under the direction of the State geologist, to scientific 

 and educational institutions and to individuals as follovs-s: To the library of 

 each chartered college and scientific institution in Minnesota, three copies; 

 to each normal school, three copies; to the libraries of the institute for the deaf 

 and mute, the insane asylums, the State prison, and every public library in the 

 State not otherwise designated, one copy each; to each of the offices in the 

 capitol, one copy; to each member of the board of regents, three copies; to 

 the library of the State university, 200 copies; to the historical society and to 

 the Minnesota Academy of Sciences, ]0 copies each; to each newspaper pub- 

 lished in the State, one copy each ; to each senator and representative of the 



