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on county surveys. By the close of the season about three-fourths 

 of the area of the State liad been examined in detail. 



A sketch of the progress of the survey during the year was made 

 to the legislature of 1872. Tliis is a pamphlet of eight pages consist- 

 ing of a business report of progress and prospects of the survey. 

 It was made brief that its publication might be immediate and that 

 it might become the basis for legislative action. The preceding an- 

 nual reports had failed to meet the demand of the legislature for 

 fresli information througli the necessary delay caused by printing, 

 etc. The publication of such voluminous annual reports greatly de- 

 laj'Cd the final report and it was decided not to continue the practice. 



Expenses during 1871. — The disbursements for salaries and eon 

 tingent expenses for the year amounted to $21,843.19. 



Renewal act of 1872. — The time originally specified for the com- 

 pletion of the survey having expired, leaving the work far from com- 

 plete, there was passed, April 29, 1872, the act to complete the survey, 

 a transcript of which is given on pages 405-6. By this act the gover- 

 nor, school commissioner, and ti;'easurer were constituted a geological 

 board to exercise supervision and control. Their duties were to as- 

 certain the nature and extent of the work already performed under 

 the present law ; to determine the best method for securing a thorough 

 and scientific completion of the survey ; to make a division of terri 

 tory and assign work to be done by the corps; to direct the expendi- 

 ture of money for geological purposes; to determine the number of 

 assistants to each geologist and the chemist, and the compensation of 

 the same; to investigate the work of the present corps already re- 

 ported and published; to give directions for the preparation of fu- 

 ture reports for publication; and to provide for the preservation and 

 distribution of all specimens collected; all maps and drawings to 

 be delivered to the board before the first of June following; corps 

 to consist of a chief, two assistants, and a chemist; the governor to 

 appoint members of the corps, with advice and consent of the senate; 

 appointment to take effect June 1, 1872. Salaries: Chief, $2,500; 

 assistants, $2,000; chemist, $1,500; other expenses, $5,000. The man- 

 ner of drawing appropriations was also specified by law. 



The act was to continue in force for one year. The same day pro- 

 vision vras made for publishing 20,000 copies of the first volume of 

 the final report, with illustrating maps, plates, and sections, for print- 

 ing it in best style, on good paper, royal octavo, for binding in muslin, 

 and for distributing the work v,dien finished. Two thousand copies 

 were ordered printed in German. The chief geologist believed that 

 an edition of 5,000 copies Avould be adequate to meet all demands, but 

 inasmuch as the reports of 1869 and 1870 had been so eagerly taken up 

 the legislature made provision for a larger edition. 



