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Irontoti. So forcibly was its passage urged, so great was tlie in- 

 terest created in its fuA'cr, that party lines were ignored. The bill 

 passed the house by a handsome majority, was referred to the senate, 

 was passed by that body without amendment, and became a law on 

 April 3, 1869. 



The matter of publication and distribution of the reports was 

 provided for by the following: 



Joint resolution relative to printinj; tlie Annual Report of the Geological Corps of Ohio 



for Uic year 1SG9. 



Whereas rhe engraving of the plat(?s, which accompany the geological report, 

 will delay the publication of that report for several mouths, and there are 

 some portions of the report that phonld be given to the public at as early a 

 date as possible: Therefore 



Resolved by the General Asscmhly of the State of Ohio, That so much of 

 Professor Newben-y's report as will serve to form a report of progress of the 

 geological siirvey of Ohio for 1S69; Professor Andrews's report on the geology 

 of southeastern Ohio; Professor Orton's report on the geology of ISIontgoniery 

 County, with such maps and sections as ai"e prepared to illustrate each of 

 these reports, be printed at once in pamphlet form as the annual report of 

 the geological corps of Ohio for the year 1SG9, to the number of 2,500 copies; 

 500 copies for the geological corps and 2,000 copies for the general assembly, to 

 be divided equally among the members, and sent by the secretary of state as 

 provided for the distribution of the agricultui'al report to the auditor of each 

 county of each tnember as soon as printed: and that the publication of the 

 remainder of the manuscripts submitted by the geological corps be deferred 

 until the plates shall be engraved. 



Adopted April 14, 1870. 



Three years later the bill of 18(59 was supplemented by the fol- 

 lowing: 



.\u act to couiplotf I he ^eoloylcal survey of the State of Ohio. 



Section 1. Be it cnaeted hij the General AascinhJij of the State of Ohio, That 

 the governor, State school commissioner, and the treasurer of State are hereby 

 constituted a geological board, whose duty it shall be to exercise supervision 

 and control of the geological survey of the State. 



Sr:c. 2. It shall be the duty of the said geological board to ascertain the 

 nature and extent of the work already performed under the present law pro- 

 viding for a geological survey of the State, which expires May 31, 1872, and to 

 determine the best methods of securing a thorough and scientific completion of 

 the survey. 



Sec. 8. The geological board shall have power to assign all unfinished work 

 of the survey to a geological corps consisting of a chief geologist and two 

 assistant geologists, men of capacity and geological knowledge, to which num- 

 ber shall be added a chemist of approved skill, which persons shall be appointed 

 by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the .senate, their »]>■ 

 pointments to take effect on the 1st day of June, 1872. 



Sec. 4. The geological board shall have power to make such a division of the 

 territory of the State between the several geologists as shall secure the most 

 tliorough and harmonious investigation of the geology of the whole State, in- 

 cluding its minerals, soils, and fossils. 



