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

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

 reported upon. 



Si:c. 3. The said geologist shall receive, while in the actual discharge of his 

 duties, a nioiith.v salary of .$200. to be paid upon vouchers signed by the 

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

 $12.5, to be paid upon vouchers signed by the governor and the chief geologist. 



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

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

 State treasury upon vouchers signed by the governor and the chief geologist. 



Sec. .5. The said geologist shall enter upon his work as soon after liis appoint- 

 ment as practicable. 



Sec. 6. The chapter on petroleum and iuflannuable gas shall be prepared for 

 publication in advance of the volume to which it belongs, and copy for the 

 same shall be delivered by the State geologist to the supervisor of public print- 

 ing on or before the 1st day of October, 1SS5 ; then shall be printed 2,500 

 copies o£ this chapter under the contract for State printing, but the paper, 

 maps, and illustrations sb.all be provided by the State geologist from the ap- 

 propriation hereinafter named ; the distribution of the copies published shall 

 be made upon the same biisis as that by which volume 5, Ceology of Ohio, 

 was distributed, except that .'00 copies shall be left with the secretary of state 

 to be sold at cost of publication. 



Sec. 7. The said geologist shall enter upon his work as soon after his appoint- 

 ment as practicable, but said work shall be completed within a year. 



Sec. S. There is hereby appropriated from the general I'evenue fund the 

 t^um of $4,500, that may be used for tlie several purposes named above, but no 

 money shall be drawn fi-om the treasury until the v^'^ork of the survey shall 

 have been entered upon. 



Sec. 9. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 



Passed Jlay 1, 18S5. 



An .ict suppleincntaiy to an act entitled "An act (o provide for the oxtonsion of the geo- 

 logical survey of Ohio," passed May 1, 1885. 



Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assemblti of the State of Ohio, 

 That the time for the preparation and completion of the second volume of the 

 economic geologj' of Ohio is hereby extended to February 1, 1887, at which 

 date the State geologist shall furnish to the governor for the Igislature, the 

 manuscript, maps, and illustrations for said volume in proper form for publi- 

 cation, and sufficient to make a volume of the same size and general character 

 as the other volumes of the geological survey report, and when published shall 

 be termed " Economic Geology No. 6." The volume shall treat in particular 

 of Ihose portion.s of the Ohio coal tield that were ]!Ct refiortod on in volume 5; 

 of the production of petroleum and inflammable gas in the State; of salt and 

 bromine; of the c<mposition, structure, strength, and dura.bility of the various 

 building stones of the State; of the production of lime, natural cements, and 

 land plaster; and of other substances produced in the State that come under 

 the head of economic geology. 



Sec. 2. In place of the chapter on petroleum and natural gas, which was to 

 be presented for publication October 1, 1885. the State geologist shall furnish 

 to the supervisor of pnblic printing, on or before June 1.5, 1S8G, an abstract of 

 the results of his investigations on these subjects during the la.st year, of 

 which absti'act there shall be printed under the contract for State printing 

 2,500 copies, bnt the paper, maps, and illustrations for said abstract shall be 



