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was ever voted to the authors of volume 4; that still remains one of 

 the great unrecorded State debts. 



In view of the delay of the volume on economic geology, which 

 ought to have been expected as no appropriation had ever been made 

 for its publication, although it had been repeatedly requested, a 

 bill was introduced early in the session of 1882 to provide for the 

 -completion of volume 5, Geology of Ohio. The act became a law 

 April 17, 1882. The following is the wording of this act and a sup- 

 plem.entary act of April 19, 1883 : 



To provide for tlie ccmp!eti<'-n of vohmie 5. Ooology of Ohio. 



Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Asacnihli/ of the State of Ohio, That 

 the governor is hereby required to appoint, by and with the advice and consent 

 of the senate, a competent geologist, whose duty it shall be to revise and 

 prepare for publication the materials already accumulated for a volume on 

 the economic geology of Ohio by the chief of the recent State geological survey 

 and designated in the schedule of reports of said survey as " Geology of Ohio," 

 volume 5. It shall further be the duty of snid geologist to supplement and 

 extend the investigations already made as to the order of arrangement, extent, 

 composition, and useful applications of the leading usiueral products of the 

 State, and especially of the economic products of the coal measures, so that said 

 volume shall contain at the date of its issue an accurate statement of the gen- 

 eral facts as to those subjects so far as known. 



Sec. 2. The said geologist shall have power to employ assistants, who shall 

 work under his direction in the iuvestigntion of the several subjects to be 

 reported upon. 



Sec. 3. The said geologist shall receive while in the actual discharge of his 

 duties a monthly salary of $200, to be paid upon vouchers signed by the 

 governor, and the assistants .shnll receive monthly salaries, in no case to exceed 

 $120, to be paid ujion vouchers signed by the governor and the geologist in 

 charge. 



Sec. 4. All necessary traveling and incidental expenses incurred by the geolo- 

 gist and his assistants in the prosecution of their work shall be paid from the 

 treasiu\v of the State upon vouchers signed by the governor and the geologist 

 in charge. 



Sec. 5. The said geologi.st shall enter upon his work as soon after his appoint- 

 ment as in-iicticable, and shall complete the revision and preparation of the 

 volume by or before the first Monday of March, 1SS3. 



Sec. 6. There is hereby appropriated from the general revenue fund a sum of 

 $5,000 that may be used for the purpose named above, but no money shall be 

 drawn from the treasury until the work shall have been entered upon. 



This act shall be in force from and aftoi* its passage. 



Passed April 17. 18S2. 



An act supplenieiit.'iry to ".\n act to provide for the completion of volume 5, Geology of 

 Oliio." passed April 17, 1882. 



Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assemhh/ of the State of Ohio, That 

 tlie time for the completion, revision, and preparation of volume 5, Geology of 

 Ohio, provided for in the act to which this is supplementary, be extended to 

 September 16, 1883, and it shall be the duty of the chief geologist, after the 



