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Sec. 2213. The person making such survey shall deliver lectures upon the sub 

 Jects committed to his charge in the villages through which he shall pass : I'ro- 

 LHded, That he shall not thereby delay his other duties. 



The act of the General Assembi}' of North Carolina abolishing the 

 survey in 1887 is as follows : 



Skc. 10. That so much of sections 2198, 2200, 2210, 2211, 2212, and 2213 per- 

 taining to the State geologist as requires the department of iigriculture to fix 

 the compensation, regulate the expenditures, or pay out of their funds the 

 salary and expenses of the State geologist shall be, and the same is hereby, 

 repealed. 



From its reorganization under Kerr in 1866 to the year 1877 the 

 survey was in no sense connected with other institutions, and the 

 State geologist held no other official or professional position. At 

 tiie latter date a department of agriculture was established, the 

 geological survey nuide a cooperative department thereof, and the 

 State geologist was made a member of, and an officer under the 

 board of agriculture. And by section 14 of the same act it was 

 made the duty of the State geologist, upon the recommendation of 

 the board of trustees, to devote two months of each year to giving 

 instructions to classes at the State university, and while employed 

 in this capacity he was considered a member of the faculty of the 

 tmiversity. 



The above-mentioned act of 1877 continued in force for two years. 

 Tn 1870 it was so amended that the State geologist Avas no longer a 

 member of the board of agriculture, and though he was still required 

 under certain conditions to deliver a course of lectures at the State 

 imiversity, he was not at such times to be considered a member of 

 the faculty. By that act, however, the geological survey was con- 

 tinued a cooperative department of the department of agriculture. 



The survey was sustained by an annual ajipropriation. From the 

 time of organization (1866) to 1877 this appropriation was paid out 

 of the general funds of the treasury as authorized by act of the gen- 

 eral assembly of 1850-51, From 1877 to 1887 the funds for the ex- 

 penses of the survey were appropriated out of money raised for the 

 support of the department of agriculture by special tax on the inaun- 

 facture and sale of commercial fertilizers within the State. 



Administration. — Upon the reorganization of the survey in 186C) 

 -o great was the variety of the work to ])e undertaken that, with a 

 small appropriation at its disposal, it was necessary that the geolo- 

 gist should undertake in person investigations of a widely different 

 ;'haracter. This was especially notable in connection with the topo- 

 graphical work. There was no accurate geographical nor topograph- 

 ical map of tlie State, as already noted, upon which to lay down the 

 sreoloffical data. 



