GEOLOGICAL AND NATUIiAL HISTORY SURVEYS. 2oT 



district attorney of each district, each member of tbe present senate and house 

 of representatives; and 100 copies to tlie said State geologist, to be by biui ex- 

 changed for similar reports from other States, and to furnish to scientific 

 societies and public libraries. 



Sec. 3. Be it further enacted. That 1,000 copies of said report shall be dt> 

 posited in the office of the secretary of state, to be sold by any agent or agents 

 to be appointed by the governor, under such regulations and for such sum 

 each as he may deem proper and advisable, for the purpose of reimbursing the 

 State for publishing the same, and the balance to be distributed among the 

 several counties of the State, in proportion to their representation in the 

 legislature, to be furnished to the people thereof, in such manner as the boards 

 of police of the several counties may direct. 



Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That, previous to the printing of said report, 

 It shall be revised and completed by the said State geologist; and the portion 

 of it which treats of zoology, as far as prepared, shall be omitted, and iu lion 

 thereof a catalogue of the fauna of the State, as far as ascertained, shall bo 

 Bubstituted. 



Sec. 5. And he it further enacted. That, for the further and more efii-'ionl 

 prosecution of the survey, analyses of the marls, soils, mineral waters, and 

 the chief agricultural productions of the State shall be made at the Universily of 

 Mississippi, as the ti'ustees may designate; and the State geologist may, from 

 time to time, furnish such Eoils, marls and waters as may be required for 

 analysis, and shall receive in return from the chemist full and px'ecise reports 

 of all analyses which may be made; and specimens of soils and marls shiill 

 be preserved in convenient glass bottles in the State cabinet, and in the cabi- 

 net of the State University, properly labeled with the chemical character of 

 the substance and the locality from which the same was obtained. 



Sec. 6. And he it further enacted, That the said geologist shall make collec- 

 tions of specimens to illustrate the mineral character and paleontology of the 

 State, iu addition to the zoological productions which by law he is now re- 

 quired to collect, and to cause them to be suitably arranged and preserved in 

 the State cabinet and in that of the university; and any duplicates that remain 

 may be distributed by him among such of the incorporated colleges in the 

 State as may apply for them. 



Sec. 7. And he it further enacted, That a sum uot to exceed $2,500 be appro 

 priated out of any money in the treasury, to be drawn upon the requisition of 

 the governor, for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act. 



Sec. 8. Be it enacted. That this act shall be in force from and after Its 

 passage. 



Approved March 1, 1S54. 



In 1857 a portion of the act of 1850 was repealed and certain oilier 

 changes made, according to the following: 



[Extract of act to provide for the printing of the Second Annual Report of the Agricul- 

 tural and Geological Survey of the State, and for other purposes.] 



Section 1. Be it enacted hij the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, That 

 so much of "An act to further endow the University of Mississippi," approved 

 March 5, 1850, as appropriates out of the treasury $3,000 per annum to aid 

 in making an agricultural and geological survey of the State, ami also so 

 much of said act as connects the said survey in any manner whatever with 

 the unlversii^y, h^, md tb^" Pame is borohy. ropealod. 



