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necessary to insure its ultiuiate completion and publication according to the 

 plan Lieretofore contemplated, and to contract witli tiie printers to the assembly 

 for the publication of the same at prices advantageous to the State. 



2. The treasurer sball pay on the warrant of the comptroller the necessary 

 cost and expenses already incurred or hereafter to be incurred in the comple- 

 tion of the said work, to the person or persons entitled to the same, out of any 

 moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. 



3. The governor is hereby authorized to continue the services of one or both 

 of the geologists who are now residing in Albany for the purpose of completing 

 and arranging the said collection of specimens in the old State hall, and doing 

 any works connected therewith he may deem necessary. 



4. Whenever two or more volumes of the said work shall be completed, the 

 governor and secretary of state may cause such books to be sold at such prices 

 as they shall deem proper, not less than $2 per volume, aud any moneys de- 

 rived from such sales may be applied to the payment of the geologists for any 

 debt due theuj from the State on account of services connected with said work. 



5. The volumes to be published shall be uniform with those already pub- 

 lished and of as good materials. 



6. This act shall take effect immediately. 



By the first section of this act it will be noted that the governor 

 was authorized to continue such of the departments of labor con- 

 nected with tlie geological survey of the State as might be necessary 

 to secure its ultimate completion and publication according to the 

 plan heretofore contemplated. The final reports of Hall and Mather 

 appeared during this year (18-13), and may be said to mark the limit 

 of the first sivrve3\ But by the third section of the ace the governor 

 was authorized to continue the services of one or both of the geol- 

 ogists then residing in Albany (Hall and Emmons) for the pur- 

 pose of completing and arranging the said collections of spechnens 

 in the old State hall, and doing any work connected therevvith he 

 might deem necessary. By section 2 of the same act all limit of ex- 

 pense was removed from a further prosecution of the work. Under 

 the license of this act Governor Bouck entered into the following 

 contract with Ebenezer Emmons and James Hall. 



The undersigned hereby propose aud engage to make the necessary survey 

 and examination, prepare the rejiorts, superintend the drawings, engraving, and 

 printing, and binding, to complete in all respects, and publish the geological 

 survey of the State to its ultimate couipletion, according to the plan heretofore 

 contemplated and as indicated in the annexed paper signed by us. 



As far as it may be practical, in the opinion of the governor, the work is to 

 progress in such manner as will insure its completion in May or June, 1S44. 

 This proposition is to include every kind of labor and expense necessary to a 

 full comiiletion of the geological survey in all the departments excepting the 

 printing, coloring the map, drawing, and engraving, and the employment of one 

 assistant geologist the 1st day of June, 1S44. 



The services and expenses indicated by this proposition are to be performed 

 for a comiiensation equal to a salary of .l;i.,"00 for each of us, and a sum not 

 exceeding $uOO for the assistant, unless the time occupied by each of us should 



