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It is thought other natural fertilizers, veins of phosphate of lime, are known 

 to exist; vast beds of peat and muck, which, if properly composted, would be 

 of great value to our farmers and which a survey would develop, and the State 

 be benefited by the increased wealth of its citizens and value of its lands. I 

 express the hope that a geological survey may be ordered, if a suitable person 

 can be found to perform the service. 



In accordance with this recommendation the following act was 

 passed and approved March 2, 1854 ; 



An act to cause a geological survey. 



1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of Ae«; 

 Jersey, That the governor of this State be, and is hereby, authorized to employ 

 some competent person or persons to make a geological survey of the State. 



2. And be it enacted. That the person or persons who may be employed by 

 the governor as aforesaid shall have the right, without molestat'ou or hindrance, 

 to enter upon any lands within this State, not doing any unnecessary damage 

 thereto, with such others as assistants as he or they may deem necessary, to 

 make the required investigations and to effect the objects of said survey. 



3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the person or persons so 

 employed as the surveyor or surveyors to make an accurate, thorough, and 

 complete geological survey of the State; which survey shall be made and de- 

 scribed in sections of one township each, accompanied by proper maps, diagrams, 

 profiles, and references, with a full scientific and practical descripticm of the 

 rocks, minerals, ores, sands, clays, marls, peat, fossils, soils, and other sub- 

 stances, with a detailed and alpiiabetical list of the principal localities of rocks, 

 minerals, ores, sands, clays, marls, peat, fossils, soils, and other substances 

 which may be valuable to the people in the several townships of this State. 



4. And be it enacted. That the governor of this State shall have a general 

 supervision of said survey, the power to employ such person or persons as afore- 

 said to make said survey, and to discharge and dismiss them as he may think 

 right and proper to further and secure the object of this act; to stipulate and 

 agree with said person or persons so employed, in regard to their compensation, 

 allowance for stationery used, the completion of said survey in manner afore- 

 said, at the earliest period for the publishing of the work and securing the 

 copyright of the same to the State, and further, to cause a report of the prog- 

 ress of the work to the legislature of this State at the annual meeting thereof, 

 until the same be completed and finished; and the governor of this State for 

 the time being is hereby authorized, by his draft in favor of such person or per 

 sons as may be employed as aforesaid, to draw on the treasurer of this State 

 for such sum or simis of money as may be necessary from time to time to pay 

 such persons employed as aforesaid: Provided, The several sums so drawn 

 for shall not exceed the whole amount hereinafter appropriated for the survey; 

 and the said treasurer is hereby authorized to pay, out of any moneys not 

 otherwise appropriated, for the purpose and in manner aforesaid, any sum 

 not exceeding $4,000. 



5. And be it enacted. That it shall be the duty of the governor to require of 

 the surveyor or surveyors aforesaid to collect specimens of the different min- 

 erals, rocks, fossils, marls, clays, sands, peats, and of such valuable substances 

 as may be found in the State, to be disposed of in such manner as the legisla- 

 ture may hereafter direct: and also to collect specimens of such substances as 

 may be valuable and peculiar to each county, to be disposed of in such manner 

 as the board of freeholders of the counties where collected shall direct. 



