476 BULLETIN 109, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Horses and mules 1.479. 2i" 



Wagons, harness, and saddlery 1, 091.0r9 



Outfit, camp expenses, provisions, forage, and blacksmithlng 2, 488. Ol 



Traveling expenses : 230. 60 



Transportation of specimens, etc 121. 32 



Po.stage account ^" 15. 48 



Stationery 63.38 



f^xchange 4.85 



$15, 078. 0»"> 

 SECOND SURVEY UNDER J. W. GLENN AND S. B. BUCKLEY, 187 3-187 5. 



With the close of the Civil War and the gradual subsidence of 

 the jDolitical excitement incident to the reconstruction period, the 

 expediency of reorganizing the survey was again broached, and the 

 following law was passed and approved on August 13, 1870 : 



All act pi-ovifliug for a gvologicil siuvoy of the State of Texas. 



Section 1. Be it cnuctcd hij the Legislature of the State of Texas, Tliat the 

 governor is hereby authorized and directed to appoint, by and with the advice 

 and consent of the Senate, some suitable and competent person as State geo- 

 logist, who shall hold his office until the completion of the geological survey of 

 the State by this act authorized, or until his successor is appointed and quali- 

 fied in case of his removal as hereinafter specified, and who shall perform the 

 duties herein prescribed, and during his occupancy of said oSice shall hold 

 no other office; and before entering upon his duties as State geologist, shall 

 enter into bond, with security to be approved by the governor, in the sum of 

 $5,000, for the faithful performance of the duties of said office. 



Sec. 2. That snid State geologist shall, as soon as possible after his ap- 

 pointment and qualification, appoint two principal assistants, one of whom shall 

 be an expert, practical, and scientific chemist and mineralogist, and the other 

 a competent geologist, and shall have full authority to appoint such sub- 

 assistants as may, from time to time, become necessary. 



Sec. 3. That said State geologist shall, with the aid of assistants, make, as 

 rapid as mny be consistent with accuracy, a thorough geological, minera logical, 

 and agricultural survey of the State, embracing a scientific and descriptive 

 survey of the rocks, minerals, minei'al waters, and fossils of the same, full 

 and complete assays of the ores and minerals, and analysis of the soils and 

 subsoils, with a classification of the same, stating their adaptation to particular 

 crops, and the best methods of preserving and increasing their fertility. They 

 shall also determine the relative ages, order of succession, thickness, dip, strike, 

 and composition of the various building stones, ores, minerals, fossils, ferti- 

 lizers, and mineral waters, with specimens of the useful native and introduced 

 plants, and all other substances and objects that may be necessary to illus- 

 trate the economic and scientific geology, and render the collection a complete 

 museum of practical geology. 



Sec. 4. That the governor shall procure safe and suitable rooms, at the 

 capital of the State, for the permanent deposit and arrangement of the collec- 

 tions above mentioned ; that said collections shall be arranged and classified 

 in the same by the said State geologist and his assistants, and that this museum 

 shall be the office and headquarters of the survey, and nlwaj's kept open and 



