478 BUJ.LICTIX 10;>, UislTKD STATICS .NATIONAL TvLUSEUM. 



cost Oi the isapei', printii-si;, and bimliny, and to others vu such terms as may be 

 advantageous to the interests of the State; and all moueys that may be received 

 from tJie sale of said reports shall be placed in the common school fund of 

 the State. 



Sec. 11. That said State geologist shall be allowed oO copies of all reiMjrts 

 of said geological survey for distribution to scientific men in this country and 

 in Europe: and that 20 copies of the same shall be in like manner allowed to 

 each of the principal assistants iu said survey, in accordance with the usual 

 custom in such surveys. 



Sec. 12. That the State geologist shall superintend the publication of his 

 reports provided for in this act, and shall present to the legislature au estimate 

 of the cost of the publication of the same, at the time such reports shall be 

 presented. 



Sec. 13. That in case of the death or resignation of said State geologist 

 before the completion of said survey the governor may appoint his successor; 

 and the governor shall have power to remove said State geologist from office for 

 neglect of duty, incompetence, dishonesty, or any kind of malfeasance in oifice, 

 should he be found guilty of such charges brought against him : Provided, 

 due notice has been given to him that such charges have been made, and he shall 

 be allowed full opportunity to confront his accuser and make his defense ; and 

 iu case of such removal of the State geologist, he shall deliver over to the gov- 

 ernor, or to his successor in office, all specimens, instruments, apparatus, maps, 

 sections, diagrams, and other property belonging to the State and relating to 

 the survey. 



Sec. 14. That all former laws of the State relating to a State geographical 

 survey are hereby repealed, and that this act take effect and be iu force from 

 and after its passage. 



Approved August 13, 1870. 



Admmistration. — Tlie general plan of the survey was similar to 

 that of the first attempt, as will be noted. Under the act, early in 

 1873, Gov. E. J. Davis appointed John W. Glenn State geologist. 

 Charles E. Hall was made first assistant. The salary of the principal 

 geologist was placed at $o,000, and the principal assistants at $1,800 

 each, the traveling and incidental expenses to be paid by the State. 

 Active work was begun in November in Burnet, Llano, and San Sabn 

 counties. Glenn resigned on March 6, 1874, and was succeeded by 

 S. B. Buckley. 



No report was published under Glenn's administration. The fol- 

 lowing from R. T, Hill's report, already quoted, is given as out- 

 lining his methods and what he had hoped to accomplish: 



My first work was to establisli a base line which would include outcroppings 

 of the known formations. As established, this line began in Blanco County, in 

 the Cretaceous, thence northward until it encountered the Cretaceous, again 

 overlying the Carboniferous in the north part of the State. Between these two 

 ends of the base line, beginning at the south end, it passed through the follow- 

 ing formations in the order as stated, viz : Cretaceous, Carboniferous. Upper 

 Silurian, Azoic, Lower Silurian. Upper Silurian, Carboniferous, Cretaceous. 



The result was one of the most interesting T e\'er accomplished. Every square 

 mile of the territory surveyed was carefully platted on the map and defined iu 



