344 BULLETIN 109, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



1846 (see p. 35), are hereby coutinued, and shall be in force for the term of 

 two years from the passage of this act; and the secretai'y of state is hereby 

 authorized and directed to sell to such of the institutions named in the first 

 section of the iibove-meutioned act which now are incorporated during the con- 

 tinuance of this act, copies of the Natural History of this State upon the condi- 

 tions and subject to the restrictions therein contained, 

 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 



An act in relation to the Colonial History of tlie State and the Natural History thereof, 

 passed Api-il 16, 1850, three-fifths being present. 



The people of the State of Neto York, represented in senate and assembly, 

 do enact as follotcs: 



Sec, 3. The volumes of the Natural History of the State, hereafter to be 

 published, shall, when sold, be disposed of at not less than $5 each, instead of 

 the price now fixed by law : Provided always, That all colleges, academies, 

 scientific institutions, and library associations, which own the volumes already 

 published, or the greater part of them, shall have the right to complete their 

 sets on the terms heretofore established for that purpose. 



Sec. 4. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this net 

 are hereby repealed. 



Sec. 5. This act shall take effect immediately. 



Early in 1850 an act was passed transferring the control of the 

 survey and State cabinet into the care of the secretary of state and 

 the board of regents of the State university. The following is the 

 text of this act : 



An act to provide for the completion of the geological survey of the State, passt^ April 



10, 1850, 



Tlie people of the State of Netc York, represented in senate and assemhlp, 

 do enact as follotps: 



1. The secretary of state is hereby authorized and directed to take charge of 

 all the matters pertaining to the prosecution and publication of the geological 

 survey of the State. 



2, It shall be the duty of the secretary of state and the secretary of the 

 regents of the university to examine into and report to the next legislature 

 upon all claims that may be made upon the State for work done on account of 

 the geological survey, and upon all contracts that may exist between the State 

 and individuals for work yet to be done on account of the survey. 



3. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state and of the secretary of the 

 regents of t-he university to report to the next legislature a plan for the final 

 completion of said survey, and to submit the estimates of the cost of such 

 completion. 



4, This act shall take effect immediately. 



Shortfy after the passage of this act the secretary of the board 

 removed Doctor Emmons from the curatorship and deprived both of 

 tlie geologists of their quarters in the old State house. Expelled 

 from the State house, writes Stevenson/ Hall at once erected a build- 



> Bull, Geol. Soc. of America, vol, 10, 1898, p. 428. 



