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said office until tlie State sliall be iu a condition to employ a greater part of 

 Mil time, and for the three months of each and every year thus devoted to the 

 duties of said office the incumbent shall receive from the treasurer of the State 

 the sum of $300. 



Sec. 4. Be it further enaeted, Tliat this act tak(^ effect from and after its 

 jiassage, the public welfare requiring it. 



Administration. — Under the act of 1851- Dr. James M. Safford was 

 elected State geolooist for a term of two years, and was reelected in 

 1856 and again in 1858. He entered npon his work at once, having 

 made arrangements with the authorities of the university for the 

 temporary filling of his chair. In the prosecution of the w^ork the 

 lack of assistants and the limited means supplied embarrassed him 

 greatly. Furthermore, the geographical and topographical maps of 

 the State, as above noted, were very defective. For many sections 

 he was compelled to construct his own maps. 



In 1856 Safford presented a preliminary report, which was pub- 

 lished under the title of A Geological Eeconnoissance of the State of 

 Tennessee. This was a small volume of 164 pages, octavo, which was 

 accompanied by a geological map of the State. 



In 1858 he presented a short statement to the legislature as to the 

 future of the survey, but made no regular report. 



In 1860, under authority f>f a resolution of the State legislature, 

 Safford undertook as full a report on the geology of the State as 

 was practicable, provisions being made for maps and illustrations. 

 Unfortunately, the breaking out of the Civil War put a stop to 

 this work. A number of plates of fossils and other illustrations 

 had been printed, but these, with other materials, were scattered 

 and lost. In the meantime the office of State geologist was abolished 

 and all work suspended. 



By a resolution of March, 1868, Safford was authorized to pro- 

 ceed, under the order of February, 1860, to make out a report and 

 present it to the State printer, for which labor he was to receive 

 $1,500. The copies of the report when printed were to be disposed of 

 and distributed according to the requirements of the resolution of 

 1860 ordering its publication. Twenty-five hundred copies were 

 thus to be printed, with the necessary illustrations and maps, in a 

 style similar and equal to those of the Kentucky reports. Of these, 

 TyQO copies were to be placed in the hands of the State librarian, to 

 be disposed of as follows: One hundred to be used for the purpose 

 of exchange with other States. 50 to be presented to the State geol- 

 ogist, 50 to be deposited in the library, and the remainder to be sold 

 at not less than $1 a copy. Five hundred copies were to be dis- 

 tribr.ted among the members of the senate and 1,500 among the 

 members of the house of representatives. 



