GEOLOGICAI. AND NATUKAL HISTORY SURVEYS. 393 



a complete and detailed geological survey of the entire territory of this State 

 to be made and executed, and a careful and accurate chemical examination 

 and analysis of the various soils which may be found in different parts thereof, 

 as also of the principal ores, marls, salines, and other mineral waters within 

 the said State. 



Sec. 2. That for the purpose of making such survey and analysis it sliall be 

 lawful for the said governor to employ a competent and skillful geologist, with 

 two or more assistant geologists, if need be, provided said assistants do not 

 exceed four in number ; and may, if requisite, also engage the services of or 

 employ a topographical surveyor, whose duty it shall be to make such observa- 

 tions and admeasurements as may be found necessary in the preparation and 

 construction of the geological map of the State, liereinafter provided for, and 

 to perform such other labors connected witia the general purposes hereby in- 

 tended as the geologist m.-iy from time (to time) prescribe and direct. In 

 addition to the duties before mentioned to be performed the geologist who may 

 be employed by virtue of this act shall also ascertain by accurate barometrical 

 observations the height of the principal mountains in this State, and in the 

 progress and examinations hereby directed shall collect and preserve all such 

 specimens of rock, fossils, ores, mineral compounds, and organic remains as 

 shall tend to exemplifj' the general geological structure of the State or be in 

 aiiywise useful or interesting; the specimens, so far as practicable, may be 

 collected in sufficient number to authorize the distribut-on of a suite thereof 

 to the principal institutions of learning of this State, if it shall hereafter be 

 found expedient to make such a distribution. 



Sec. 3. That the said geologist shall annually and on or before the 1st day of 

 February in each year (during the survey) make a full report to the governor 

 of this State of his progress in the work hereby authorized and required, 

 accompanying said reports with such profiles and maps, together with such a 

 glossary of scientific or technical terms, as may be useful in illustrating the 

 same, which reports, profiles, and maps it shall be the duty of the governor to 

 lay before the general assembly. 



Sec. 4. That for the purpose of defraying the expenses which may be incurred 

 under this act a sura not exceeding $12,000 be, and is hereby, appropriated, to 

 be employed in such manner as the governor shall deem advisable, to be i^aid 

 on his certificate, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appro- 

 priated, upon the warrant of the auditor of State. 



Sec. 5. That when the entire work hereby contemplated and provided for 

 shall have been fully completed it shall be the duty of the geologist in charge 

 thereof to make a general and final rei)ort thereon, embracing in tlie said 

 required report the result of all the surveys, examinations, and discoveries 

 which shall have been made, whether geological, chemical, topographical, or 

 otherwise, together with all other matters connected therewith which may be 

 (Considered by hira as likely to be in any manner useful to the public or 

 interesting to science, lie shall also construct and prepare for engraving a 

 complete geological map of this State, showing not only the general geological 

 structure thereof, but plainly and accurately delineating the stratification of 

 its principal rocks and position and boundary of all the mineral deposits which 

 may be now knowji or be hereafter ascertained by the investigations which 

 shall have been made, accompanying the said map with such a series of sections 

 or profiles as may be necessary to a proper exhibition of the geology of the 

 region to which they may relate. The final rei^ort, together with the map and 

 the accompanying sections and profiles, shall be coramunicatod by the governor 



