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excbauge with public libraries of other States, and to be furnished to public 

 libraries of this State; a sufHeient number to be retained for the use of the 

 State library, and the I'emainder, if i\nj, to be sold at the cost of publication, 

 andcr the direction of the commissioners of the library; to the chief geologist 

 and his assistants, 200 copies; to each State officer and to each State institution, 

 1 copy; to be deposited with the secretary of state, to be sold at cost of publica- 

 tion, under such regulations as he may establish, 1,000 copies; the reuiainder to 

 be equally divided among the members of the sixty-sixth general assembly. 



Sec. 2. That said original section 3 of the act supplementary be, and the same 

 is hereby, repealed. 



Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be m force from and after its passage. 



Passed March 15, 1SS4. 



Administration. — In compliance with the provisions of the act of 



1882 Gov. Charles Foster appointed Edward Orton State geolo- 

 gist. The work was at once entered upon and vigorously pushed, 

 but it proved to be a task of such magnitude that it was found 

 necessary to ask for an extension of time. The $5,000 appropriation 

 was thought sufficient for the year's work. The expenses on the two 

 volumes, 4 and 5, aggregated $5,171.92. 



The act of April 19, 1883, extended the time for completing volume 

 5 to the 1st of September and required the State geologist to superin- 

 tend its printing and proof reading. The number of copies was fixed 

 ftt 10,000 and uniform with tlie rest of tlie series, and provision was 

 made for their distribution. A new feature in the proviso was the 

 item, " 1,000 copies to be deposited with the secretary of state and sold 

 at cost of publication.'' An appropriation of $15,300 was made foi- 

 completing the field and chemical work, revising and preparing the 

 manuscript, engraving and printing suitable maps and illustrations, 

 superintending tlie publication, and proof reading, and for paper, 

 printing, and binding volume 5. On publication of this volume the 

 survey was declared complete. 



The legislature provided for the smaller edition and for the sale of 

 a small portion of it upon the advice of the State geologist. The work 

 was completed and prepared for the printer with all possible speed, 

 so that the volume w^as issued during the j^ear 1884. The expenses for 



1883 were $8,377.95. 



Provision had been made for distribution to the members of the 

 sixty-fifth general assembly. The sixty-sixth assembly proved itself 

 unwilling to see the experiment of selling a portion of the books at 

 cost ($1.02 a voliune) thoroughly tried. Early in the year 1885 a 

 joint resolution was passed giving the 800 copies remaining unsold to 

 the members, thus disappointing those who would have been glad to 

 avail themselves of tlie opportunity to make their series complete. 



From lack of time to prepare, much valuable matter was omitted in 

 regard to the coals, only those of the lower measures having been noted. 



