296 BULLETIN 109, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Sec. 12. An act entitled "An act to provide for establisliing and maintaining 

 a mining school, and create llie oflice of said mineralogist," approved March 9, 

 1S66, and all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are lierei)y repealed. 



Sec. 13. This bill shall take effect fi'om and after its passage. 



Approved March 1, 1869. 



An act to abolish the ofEce of Stnte minernlosrist nnd provide for the care and preserva- 

 tion of the State museum. 



The people of the State of Nevada, represented in senate and assembly, do 

 enact as follows: 



Section 1. The office of State mineralogist of the State of Nevada is hereby 

 abolished. 



Sec. 2. On and after the 1st day of Januaiy, A. D. 1ST9, the superintendent 

 of public instruction shall be ex offlcin curator of the State museum of min- 

 eralogical, geological, and other specimens. 



Sec. 3. The curator, when visiting the several school districts in this State, 

 in his capacity as superintendent of public instruction, as is required by law, 

 shall make inquiry so far as is practicable into the resources of the mines 

 situated in the respective districts, and inspect the same; collect specimens of 

 ores, ascertain their value, catalogue, and place them in the State museum, and 

 prepare for publication in tlie appendix of his biennial report as superintendent 

 of public instruction a report as curator of the State museum in detail of his 

 acts performed and information obtained under the provisions of this act. 



Sec. 4. The services rendered and expenses incurred by the State superin- 

 tendent of public instruction as curator of the State museum as aforesaid, he 

 shall be allowed a sum not exceeding .$.500 per annum, and he shall have further 

 power to engnge the services of one or more employees, at such times as he may 

 deem necessary, to clean, rearrange, and catalogue all specimens that are now 

 or that mny hereafter be placed in said State museum, who shall be paid a 

 compensiition, subject to the approval of the board of State examiners, and on 

 the certificate of the said curator, of a sum not exceeding $500 per annum. 



Sec. 5. All claims for services rendered, as is provided in section 4 of this act, 

 shall be allowed by the board of State examiners, .and paid by the State 

 treasurer out of any moneys not otl)erwise appropriated on the warrant of the 

 State controller. 



Sec. 6. An act entitled "An act to provide for the establishing and maintain- 

 ing a mining school, and to create the office of State mineralogist," approved 

 March 9, 1S66, is hereljy repealed. 



Sec. 7. An act entitled "An act to create the office of State mineralogist and 

 define the duties of such otilcer," approved March 1, 18G9, is hereby repealed. 



Sec. 8. This act shall not take eft'ect and be in force until on and after the 

 first I\Ionday in January, A. D. 1879. 



Approved February 1, 1877. 



According to the law of March 9, 18G6, an oflRce of State miner- 

 alogist was created, Avhich was connected- with a proposed State 

 mining school, although it was to be sustained by independent 

 appropriations. 



Admin'/ strotion. — Under this act R. H. Stretch was appointed 

 State minci'alogist, serving only during the year 1866 and being 



