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by death or rosi.suntion shall be filled by the wvernov with the consent of the 

 senate. 



Sec. 2. The eoniiuissioners before entering on their dnties, shall respectively 

 take and subscribe the oath recinired of other State officers, which shall be 

 filed in the olBce of the secretary of the Connnon wealth, who is hereby author- 

 ized and directed to administer said oath. 



Skc. 3. The said board is hereby authorized to rent rooms in Harrisburg at a 

 moderate and usual rent, to use for the purposes of the survey created by this 

 act, and shall therein also hold its regular meetings: such meetings shall be 

 held at least once in every three months and as much oftener as required by 

 rhe exigencies of its affairs, and the due furtherance of the survey; the time 

 for the regular meetings shall be fixed at the time of its organization. 



Sec. 4. The commissioners shall receive no compensation for services but 

 their actual traveling and other necessary expenses, which shall be paid by 

 the State treasurer on the certificate of the auditor general; and no commis- 

 sioner or officer under this act shall derive pecuniary profit from the appro- 

 priation made by this act, other than is specified. 



Sec. 5. The board shall b§ convened by the governor as soon as practicable, 

 and it shall have power to make such regulations for the management of its 

 business as it may deem expedient, and may, if necessary, employ a clerk. 



Sec. 6. The board created by this act shall, on its organization, trJce charge 

 of and conduct as it may deem to the best interests of the State, the business 

 of organizing a thorough and extended geological survey of the State. The 

 purpose of the said survey shall be to make such investigations as may be 

 requii*ed to thoroughly elucidate the geology- of the State and put the result 

 of this and previous work of individuals or surveys into a convenient form 

 for reference; and further, to make such full chemical examination of ores, 

 coals, oils, clays, soils, fertilizing, and other useful minerals and waters as 

 shall be required to afford the agricultural, mining, metallurgical, and other 

 interests of the State a clear insight into the character of its resources. The 

 said board shall also cause to be collected such specimens as may be neces- 

 sary to form a complete cabinet collection of specimens of the geology and 

 mineral resources of the State. 



'Sec. 7. To carry out the purposes of this act tlie boanl is liereby authorized 

 and required to appoint a State geologist of ability and exi)erience, who shall 

 control the execiiticm of the details of the .survey; and the said geologist shall 

 appoint such competent assistants as may be recpiired to carry out the pur- 

 poses of the survey, none of whom shall be members of the board. All 

 salaries shall be flxe<l by the board, which is hereby required to make yearly 

 agreements with the geologist and his assistants as to their salaries. It shall 

 also fix the rates at which the geologist may employ such temporary assistants 

 as he may require. The work of the survey shall be done on such plan as 

 shall be approved by the board. On the adoption of the plan, the geologist 

 shall immediately and thereafter as often as may be required, make oiit esti- 

 mates for all necessaiy implements and materials for the woi-k, and for all 

 necessary expenses, and these estimates shall be submitted to and be subject 

 to the approval of the board. The said State geologist, with his assistants, 

 shall be under the control of the l)oard, but after the approval of the plan 

 submitted by the geologists his assistants shall be responsible to him for the 

 pi'oper execution of their work. The State geologist shall be present at the 

 ineetings of the board and take part in its discussions. 



Sec. 8, The said board shall collect copies of the .surveys of this and other 

 States and counties, and sliall digest the inforination therein contained to the 



