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extent, value, order, succession, ari'fingement, relative position, dip or inclina- 

 tion, and conipsirative magnitude of the mineral deposits and the several strata 

 or geological formations within this State, and also determine the extent of the 

 agricultural, horticultural, aud vine lands, and their adaptability to the varied 

 products of the soil, and also to determine the extent and capacity of the water 

 powers of t'^e various streams, and shall also make full aud complete assays 

 and analyses as they may deem necessary, of all minerals, soils, aud other sub- 

 stances necessary for a complete aud satisfactory report of the material dis- 

 covered and so treated. 



Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the said State geologist to make a monthly 

 summary of his work, and forward the same to the president of the board of 

 managers for publication, and shall also, on or before the 1st day of December 

 in each and every year during the time necessarily occupied by said survey, to 

 make a full rei)ort of the progress of said survey during the preceding year, 

 which shall be accompanied by such maps, drawings, and specimens as may be 

 necessary and proper to exemplify and elucidate the same, aud deliver the same 

 to the aforesaid president. 



Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of said State geologist, upon the completion 

 of the survey, to represent, or cause to be represented, upon proper mai)s of 

 the State, by distinctive lines, marks, aud appropriate colors, the area aud mag- 

 nitude of the various beds of different minerals, valuable rocks, marls, agricul- 

 tural, vine, and horticultural lauds, aud the various interesting or anomalous 

 stratified rocks discovered, and the water powers aforesaid, and shall accom- 

 pany the same with a complete memoir of all the minerals, rocks, agricultural, 

 vine, and farming lands thus delineated, as well as the watercourses required 

 by this act to (be) examined; and he shall embrace within such memoir a full, 

 entire, and accurate account of the leading discoveries made in the State, and 

 also a glossary of the scientific terms used in the rei^ort; and the said report, 

 so made, when being completed, shall be deposited with the president of tlie 

 board of managers. 



Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of the State geologist to forward to the president 

 of the board of managers, from time to time during the progress of the survey, 

 such specimens, in triplicate, of the rocks, ores, coals, fossils, and other mineral 

 substances examined, properly labeled, giving the names of such specimens and 

 localities from which they were taken, for the purpose of forming a complete 

 cabinet of specimens of the mineralogy and geology of the State. One set of 

 said specimens shall be placed in the school of mines and metallurgy whenever 

 the .same shall be established; one .set shall be placed in the State University; 

 and the other shall be preserved in such manner as the board of managers may 

 direct; and the said specimens shall be open to public inspection at all reason- 

 able hours, under such regulations as are necessary for their proper care and 

 preservation. 



Sec. 7. The State geologist and his assistant, before entering upon the dis- 

 charge of their duties, shall each take an oath before some officer of this State 

 qualified to administer oaths, that they will honestly, faithfully, and fairly per- 

 form all the duties required of them by this act, to the best of their abllitiea^ 

 and that they will not permit any person to have access to any of their books 

 or papers, or communicate their contents to any person or persons; and that 

 they will not disclose or make public any mine or valuable deposit, otherwise 

 than in their official reports to the board of managers, and that they will abstain 

 from all speculations in their own behalf, or in behalf of others, during the 

 progress of such survey and in relation thereto. 



