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assigned tliem by this act. The board shall fix the salaries of the State geolo- 

 gist, not to exceed $3,000 per auuum of actual service, aud of all others em- 

 ployed in the worli of the survey. 



Sec. 11. All accounts for salaries and expenses shall be made under oath, and 

 certified by the board aud filed with the auditor of the State; and the pay of 

 the State geologist and his assistants shall be made out of the appropriation 

 made for civil officers of the State. 



Sec, 12. The sum of $5,000 is hereby annually appi'opriated, out of any money 

 In the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray the incidental expenses of 

 the bureau created by this act and the geological survey, and no more than this 

 amount shall be thus expended In any one year. 



Sec. 13. The board of managers shall have the general management of the 

 survey, and have full power to remove the State geologist or any of his assist- 

 ants, and appoint their successors when deemed necessary for the good of the 

 work entrusted to them. 



Sec. 14. It shall be the duty of the board to cause the geological collections 

 made previous to the year ISTO to be distributed in accordance with the laws 

 under which those collections were made, except the one collected for the State 

 eapitol, which shall be given to the School of Mines and Metallurgy, and all 

 subsequent collections made in triplicate shall be given, one suite to the State 

 University, one to the State School of Mines and Metallurgy, and one to the 

 city of St. Louis, which shall be deposited by the authorities of that city in 

 some institution for the advancement of science or general education. 



Sec. 15. The president of the board shall, from time to time, certify to the 

 State auditor the sums of money requii'ed to pay the salaries of the State geolo- 

 gist and his assistants, and for the incidental expenses of the bureau; and on 

 receiving such certificates the auditor of State shall draw his warrant on the 

 treasurer of the State for the requisite amounts in favor of the parties and 

 persons entitled to receive the same, and shall charge the several sums so paid 

 to the accounts of the proper appropriation. 



Sec. 16. The entire expenses of carrying out the provisions of this act shall 

 not exceed in any one year the sum of $10,000. 



Sec. 17. The State geologist and his assistant, before entering upon the dis- 

 charge of their duties, sliall each take an oath before some oflicer of this State 

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

 perform the duties required of them by this act to the best of their ability, 

 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 ^r persons, and that 

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

 In their official reports (except to the owner or owners of the land surveyed), 

 and that they will abstain from all speculations in their own behalf, or in the 

 behalf of others, during the progress of such survey and in relation thereto. 



Sec. 18. An act entitled "An act to establish a mining, metallurgical, and 

 geological bureau for the State of Missouri, and to provide for its support and 

 management, and to authorize a geological survey," approved March 24, 1S70, 

 and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the act are hereby re- 

 penled. 



Sec. 19. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 



Approved March 18, 1871. 



Administration. — Under this act Raphael Pumpelly, of New York, 

 was appointed State geologist, with G. C. Broadhead, W. B. Potter, 



