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JSj;c. S. The auuiial salary of the State geologist shall uot exceed $3,000; the 

 annual salary of the assistant shall uot exceed $2,000, and the i)ay of the sub- 

 ordinate assistants shall not exceed, for each of theiu, the sum of $1.50 per day 

 for each day employed. 



Sec. 9. The board of managers of the bureau herein provided fur shall have 

 u superintending control over the surveys and reports contemplated by this act; 

 shall have power to make yearly agreements with the State geologist and his 

 assistants as to the amount of their salaries; to appoint a coumilttee of their 

 body to examine, audit, and allow all necessary expenses of such survey as they 

 occur, and to certify the same to the governor; to remove from office, for cause, 

 the said State geologist or any of his assistants; and so soon as possible after 

 their organization under this act, should they deem the best interests of the 

 State to require it, they shall provide for the establislnnent, at the most acces- 

 sible point in the State, of an oliice for assayer of ores. And when so estab- 

 lished, the governor of the State, by, and with the consent of said board, shall 

 appoint an assayer for such office, whose duties shall be prescribed by the board 

 of managers, who shall by contract determine the amount of salary, which iu no 

 case shall exceed the sum of $2,000 per year. 



Sec. 10. The said board of managers shall demand and take possession of all 

 the geological reports of this State, published and unpublished, instruments, 

 implements, and all other paraphernalia which were used in connection with 

 the geological surveys of this State by the former geologist employed by the 

 tState. And all persons now in possession of the same are hereby authorized and 

 required to turn the same over to the president of the board of managers of 

 the bureau herein established, and when received, the said board shall have 

 power to turn the same over to the State geologist, or make such other disposi- 

 tion of them as they may deem the best interest of the State demand. 



Sec. 11. The president of the said boai'd of managers of the said bureau shall 

 receive all the reports of the State geologist contemplated by this iict; shall lay 

 the same before the board of managers for their consideration and uiti)roval, 

 at their annual meeting, to be held at any time, at the discretion of the presi- 

 dent, before the meeting of the general assembly; and after the day fixed by 

 this act when the State geologist is required to make his annual report, and at 

 such meeting the president shall lay before the said board an accurate account 

 of all expenditures incurred in pi'osecnting the objects for which this bureau has 

 been created, all of which, after thr> action of the board thereon, shall be laid 

 before the general assembly at tiie first following session by the president. 



Sec. 12. The board of managers herein provided for shall be allowed, as a 

 full compensation, their necessary expenses whilst attending to any of the duties 

 requiretl of them by this act. the accounts therefor to be made oiit under oath 

 and filed with the State auditor, and the pay of the State geologist and his as- 

 sistant shall be out of the appropriations applicable to the payment of other 

 civil officers of the State. 



Sec. 13. The sum of $7,500 is hereby ar)proi)riated out of any money in the 

 State treasury not otherwise appropriated to defray the general expenses of 

 the bureau created by this act. and no larger amount shall be expended for such 

 puri)oses in any one year. The president of the board of managers is hereby 

 authorized to certify to the State auditor, from time to time, the sums of money 

 required to pay the salaries of the State geologist and his assistant and for the 

 general expenses of the bureau, and on receiving such certificates the auditor 

 shall draw his warrant on the treasurer of the State for the requisite anumnta 



