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and to mark thereon the localities of the respective beds or deposits of the 

 various minenil substances discovered, and on the conii)letion of the survey to 

 compile a memoir of the seology and mineralogy of the State, comprising ft 

 complete account of tlie leading subjects and discoveries which have been 

 embraced in the survey. 



Sec. 5. The said State geologist shall also send to the secretary of the Com- 

 raonwealth sucli specimens of the rocks, ores, coals, soils, fossils, and mineral 

 products discovered, as he may deem necessary and pi'oper, in order to form a 

 complete cabinet collection of specimens of the geology and mineralogy of the 

 State, and the said secretary of the Commonwealth shall cause them to be de- 

 posited in proper order, in some convenient room in the State capitol, there to 

 be preserved for public inspe<'tion. The said geologist is further required to 

 furnish similar specimens of geology and mineralogy of each county in the 

 State to the conmiissiou(!rs of said county, v/ho shall cause the same to be 

 properly deposited and arranged for public inspection in a room in the county 

 courthouse, or some other convenient place in the county. 



Sec. G. It shall be the duty of the chemist appointed as aforesaid to make 

 full and complete examinations, assays and analyses of all such rocks, ores, 

 soils, mineral substances, and mineral waters us may be submitted to him by 

 the State geologist, and to furnish him with a detailed and complete account of 

 the results so obtained. 



SiiC. 7. For the purpose of carrying on and comi)]eting the s:ud geological 

 and miueralogiacl survey, the sum of $6,400 is hereby aimually apprt)priated 

 for five years, to be expended as follows: For the annual salary of the State 

 geologist, $2,000; for that of eacli of the assistant, geologists, $1,200; aud for 

 tJie annual compensation of the chemist, in full for all services performed and 

 expenses incurred by him, $1,000; the remaining $1,000, if necessary, to be 

 appropriated to the incidental expenses of the geologists, incurred in the prose- 

 cution of the survey, and the duties enjoined on them by this act: Provided, 

 That the said salaries shall not connnence until the said geologists and chemist 

 shall have entered upon the execution of their duties, and that on the com- 

 pletion of said survey and the duties connected with it they shall wholly 

 cease and determine. 



Approved JMarch 20, 1836. 



A supplement to the act entitled "An act to provide for a ireolocfical niid in!neralo!?ical 

 survey of the State," passed March 20, 1830. 



Secton 1. Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the 

 Cnmnwnwealth of Pennsiilvania, in General Assembly met, and is hereby en- 

 acted by the authority of the same. That the State geologist be, and he is here- 

 by, authorized to appoint two additional assistant geologists, who shall possess 

 the same qualifications, and receive tlie same salary as those appointed under 

 the act to which this is a supplement, and that the annual report of the said 

 Slate geologist shall be made to the legislature on or before the 1st day of 

 February in each year. 



Sec. 2. For the payment of the said additional assistant geologists, and such 

 expenses as may be incurred in the formation of the State and county cabinet 

 collections of mineral specimens, with other incidental expenses, incurred in 

 the prosecution of the survey, the sum of $3,000 is hereby added to the future 

 annual appror)riati(ju mentioned in the seventh section of the act to which 

 tltis is a supplement. 



Sec. 3. So nuich of the act to which this is a supplement, as is hereby altered 

 or supplied, shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed. 



