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BULLETIN 109, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Salaines. — The scale of salaries proposed by the State geologist 

 and adopted by the board ranged from $3,000 for the State geologist, 

 $2,500 for the chemist, $2,000 and $1,000 for assistant geologists, 

 down to $1,200, $900, $720, $600, and $480 for the aids, a year; in all 

 cases exclusive of traveling and oilier necessary expenses. Instru- 

 ments and stationery, expressage, and postage were provided by the 

 survey. All salaries and bills of expense were settled, to the last 

 day of each month, by drafts of the State geologist on the treasurer 

 of the board, audited by a committee of the board at each quarterly 

 meeting. Duplicate vouchers were filed in the office of the auditor 

 general of the State. 



Appropriations. — The survey was sustained by specific appropria- 

 tions made b}- the legislature at its biennial session, as follows: By 

 the act approved May 14, 1874, $105,000; May 13, 187G, $65,000: 

 April 18, 1877, $100,000; June 11, 1879, $50,000; May 26, 1881. 

 $125,000; June 28, 1883, $50,000; July 3, 1885, $50,000: 1887, $88,000; 

 1891, $10,000; total, $643,000. Of this amount $495,000 was ex- 

 pended between May, 1874, and July, 1885 ; or an average of $45,000 

 a year for 11 years. 



The amounts proposed to be disbursed by the State geologist were 

 submitted in estimate at the quarterly meetings of the board of 

 commissioners, and approved or modified. The amounts actually 

 disbursed were reported to the board, the vouchers audited by a 

 committee and deposited in duplicate with the auditor general of the 

 State. 



Personnel. — The personnel of the survey from 1836 to 1854 ha.'^ 

 been described and published in report A, first part, 197 pages, octavo. 

 1876, entitled " Historical Sketch, etc." 



From 1874 to 1886 the personnel of the survey was as follows. 

 the X under the several dat«s showing the years or parts of years 

 during wdiich the persons named (in alphabetical order) were em- 

 ployed on the survey in various capacities and districts : 



' Special draftsman for parts of two years 



* Authors of reports. 



3 Special draftsman for part of a year (fossils). 



