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SiiC. 2. The board of manngers are authorized, as soon as they are orgauized, 

 to appoint oue State geologist, who shall be a person of competent, scientific, 

 and practical knowledge of the sciences of geology and mineralogy, and who is 

 not connected with any school or college as an instructor, and who shall be the 

 director of the survey; and said State geologist may appoint such assistants 

 and subordinate assistants and laborers as may be deemed necessary in order 

 to make a thorough and scientific, geological, and miiiornlogical survey of the 

 State. 



Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the State geologist and h's assistants, under 

 riie instructions and directions of the board of managers, to carry on, with as 

 nsuch expedition and dispatch as may be consistent with minuteness and accu- 

 racy, a thorough geological and mineralogical survey of the State already begun, 

 with a view to determine the order, succession, arrangement, relative position, 

 dip, or inclination, and comparative mtignitude of the several strata or geo- 

 logical formations within this State, and to discover and examine all beds or 

 deposits of mineral contents and fossils, and to determine the various position, 

 formation, and arrangement of the many different ores, clays, rocks, coals, min- 

 eral oils, natural gas, mineral and artesian waters, and other mineral substances 

 as may be useful or valuable: also to note carefully the character of the soils 

 .iRd their capacities for agricultural purposes, the growth of timber, and other 

 scientific mattei's that may be of practical importance and interest; and said 

 geologist shall cause to be represented on the map of the State, by colors and 

 other appropriate means, the various areas occupied by the different geological 

 formations of the State and to mark thereon the localities of the respective beds 

 or deposits of the various mineral substances; and. on the completion of tlie 

 survey, complete a memoir of the geology and mineralogy of tlie State, com- 

 prising a complete account of the leading subjects and discoveries which have 

 been embraced in the survey. 



Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of tlie State geologist to make, or cause to be 

 made, detailed maps and reports of counties or districts as fast as completed, 

 which maps shall embrace all such geological, mineralogical, and scientific de- 

 tails necessary to make complete reports of said districts and counties. The 

 State geologist may also, from time to time, publish or cause to be published 

 any reports of work completed in the form of pamphlets or bulletins for general 

 distribution. 



Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the State geologist to collect full suites of all 

 minerals, ores, fossils, or other mineral substances of scientific or practical in- 

 terest or utility as may be discovered, and that may be necessary to form a 

 complete cabinet collection, to illustrate the various resources of the State, as 

 may be necessary to assist in preparing the various reports of the survey. 



Sec. G. It .shall be the duty of the said assistants to make full and complete 

 examinations, assays, and analyses of all such rocks, ores, soils, or other sub- 

 stances 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 I'esults so 

 obtained. 



Sec. 7. The State geologist, from time to time, may furnish items of general 

 information or new discoveries for publicat'on in newspapers: Prnridcd, The 

 preparation of the manuscript and publication thereof does not interfere with 

 the progress or add to the expense of the survey. He mny also have authority 

 to furni.sh cabinets for colleges or public museums, located within the State of 

 Missouri, of minerals, rocks, or fossils: Provided, Said institutions shall pay the 



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