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above incliuling- only the cost of maps and plates. In addition to 

 the amounts mentioned the assembly appropriated the sum of $2,000 

 a year for a period of four years to aid in the publication of Messrs. 

 Tuomey and Holmes's Fossils of South Carolina, the work of prepa- 

 ration of which seems to have been largely-, if not wholly, personal. 

 The survey reports of which there were four were distributed in 

 accordance with the foUowinir resolutions: 



Koport of comioiUce ou agricuUure, to whom was refeiied so much of th(> Rovernor's 

 message as rehited to the geological survey : 



Risolved, That 1,000 copies of tlie report of Mr. Lieber, with the uccoiupauy- 

 ing plates, be printed for distributiou, suid that the same be so printed that 

 they may hereafter form a portion of one or more«octavo volumes. 



Re-'iOlced, That JMr. Lieber be entitled to receive 50 copief: for (listribiitioa 

 \>y himself as soon as the same shall have been printed. 



From resolutions for 1857: 



fte-solced, That the copies of the report of the State geologist for the year 

 185(5, which were ordered lo be printed at the last session of the legislature for 

 distribution, and now in the treasurer's office at Columbia, be disposed of as 

 follows : That each member of the senate and house of representatives be 

 allowed one copy, and that the lemainiug copies be placed in the hands of the 

 .governor, and he be requested to have deposited 12 copies in the legislative 

 library, two copies in each college and public library in the State, and the 

 remaining copies in the hands of the booksellers in Charleston and Columbia, 

 and in one store at each courthouse in the State, to be sold at cost, the same 

 commissions to be allowed them as ou the statutes at large. 



Be i1 farther rei^olved. That in order to place the above report within the 

 reach of everyone feeling an interest in the geological, mineralogical, and agri- 

 cultnriil survey now progressing, that 1,000 additional copies of the above re- 

 port be published in the same form and style, and be deposited with the gov- 

 ernor, to be placed by him In the same hands for sale on the same terms. 



Resolved, That 2,000 copies of the report of the State geologist for the year 

 1857. with the accompanying plates, be printed in the same form and style as 

 the report for 1850. and distril)uted in the same manner as directed for said 

 report. 



From resolutions of 1858 : 



RcMolved, That 2.000 copies of the report be printed; that each member of 

 the senate and of the house of representatives be allowed one copy ; and the 

 remaining copies be placed in the hands of the governor, and that he l)e re- 

 quested to have 12 copies deposited in the legislative librarj% two copies in each 

 college and public library in the State, and the remaining copies in the hands 

 of the booksellers of Columbia and Charleston, and in one store at each court- 

 house in the State, to be sold at 50 cents a copy, the same commissions to be 

 allowed them as on the statutes at large; and they would further recommend 

 that the copies now on hand shall be sold at a like price. 



Xothino- fin^thor. under State auspices seems to have been under- 

 taken within the period coA-ered by this history. (See further ou pp. 

 141. 142. of Bulletin 4r.5 of the V. S. Geological Survey.) 



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