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and carry ou with as much expedition and dispatch, as may be consistent with 

 minnteness and accuracy, with a view to determine the order, succession, ar- 

 rangement, relative position, dip, or inclination, and comparative magnitude 

 of the several strata, or geological formations, within this State; and to dis- 

 cover and examine all beds or deposits or ore, coal, marls, and such other 

 mineral substances, and mineral waters, as may be useful or valuable, and to 

 perform such other duties as may be necessary to malie a full and complete 

 geological and mineralogical survey of the State. 



3. It shall be the duty of the said assistants to make full and complete exami- 

 nations, assays, and analyses of all rocks, ores, soils, or other substances, 

 as may be submitted to them by the State geologist for the purpose, and to 

 furnish him with a detailed and complete account of the results so obtained. 



4. It shall be the duty of the said geologist on or before the 1st day of 

 December in each and every year during the time necessarily occupied by said 

 survey, to make an annual report of the progress of said survey, accompanied 

 with such maps, drawings, and specimens as may be necessary and proper to 

 exemplify and elucidate the same, to the secretary of state, who shall lay 

 such report before the legislature. 



5. It shall be the duty of said State geologist to cause to be represented on 

 the map of the State, by color and other appropriate means, the various areas 

 occupied by the different geological formations in the State, and to mark 

 thereon the localities of tiie respective beds or deposits of the various mineral 

 substances discovered ; and on the completion of the survey to complete a memoir 

 of the geology and mineralogy of the State, comprising a complete account of 

 the leading subjects and discoveries which have been embraced in the survey. 



0. It shall be the duty of the State geologist to forward to the secretary 

 of state from time to time, during the progress of the survey, such specimens 

 in triplicate of the rocks, ores, coals, soils, fossils, and other minex'al sub- 

 stances discovered and examined, and may be proper and necessary to form a 

 complete cabinet collection of specimens of the geology and mineralogy of the 

 State; and the said secretary shall cause one sot thereof to be deposited, in 

 proper order, in some convenient room in the State capitol, there to be preserved 

 for public inspection, and another set with the State university, and another 

 .set with the city of St. Louis, to !)e deposited by said city in some convenient 

 place or with some public institution in that city for public inspection, 



7. For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act the sum 

 of $10,000 is hereby annually approj)riated. for the term of two years, to be 

 expended under the direction of tiie governor: Provided, hotcever, That the 

 salaries of the said State geologist and his assistants shall not commence until 

 they have been entered upon the execution of their duties; and upon presenta- 

 tion by the said State geologist of the proper vouchers, the auditor of public 

 accounts is hereby required to draw his warrant on the treasurer for the amount 

 of the cost of any chemical apparatus or other outfit, deemed necessary by said 

 State geologist, and also for the amount of the quarterly pay of the said State 

 geologist and his assistants, on presentation of the proper vouchers, by said 

 State geologist, and upon the order of the governor, who shall be satisfied that 

 the services for which such pay shall be demanded have been performed; 

 Provided, That the amount of such cost and pay shall not, in any one year, ex- 

 ceed tiie amount herein appropriated. 



8. The said State geologist and his principal assistants, before entering upon 

 the discharge of their duties, shall ench take an oath before some judge or 

 justice of the peace faithfully to perform all the services required of them under 



