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be under ilrn supervision and couti-ol of the Siiid couimitssiouei'. mul siiail receive 

 8ucli couiyeusation as the couiiuissioner may direct, uot to exceed $2,000 per 

 year. The comniissiouer shall provide all necessary chemical apparatus, books, 

 maps, and stationery to carry out the provision of this act, and may employ 

 such additional clerks as shall be requisite to a proper execution of this act, 

 which clerks shall receive such compensation as he may deeu proper, not to 

 exceed ?900 each per year. 



Sec. 2. The commissioner shall cause to be made assaj'S, analyses, or other 

 scientific examination of all beds or deposits of ores, coals, clays, marls, aud 

 other mineral substances situated in this State as shall be requisite to n 

 correct knowledge of the extent and value thereof. He shall also in all proper 

 cases upon application require like examinations, assays, or analyses to be made 

 of deposits, mines, and lauds situated in this State, aud shall furnish proper 

 certificates of the result of such examination, assay, or analyses. He shall also 

 upon request of any person require assays or analyses to be made of any speci- 

 men of soil or mineral deposits in this State, and shall also furnish to the 

 party requesting it a certificate thereof: Provided, That in all cases when 

 assays or analyses are made ujion request of any person the party making 

 the request shall be required by the commissioner to make affidavit that the 

 specimen offered was found upon the land of the party making the request, or 

 tliat said request is made at the instance or with the full knowledge and consent 

 of the owner of the laud upon which said specimen was found. 



Sec. 3. The commissioner shall preserve a record of this department of his 

 otfice, and the information therein collected and preserved shall be reported 

 to the governor as in case of other matters relating to his office. He shall 

 also report to the go\-eruor before each session of succeeding legislatures, for 

 information of the governor and such legislatures, all money expended under 

 this act, aud how and for what purpose such money was expended. He shall 

 aLso report the amounts of money received from persons, corporations, or syndi- 

 cates for services rendered, specifying the amount so received. He shall also 

 preserve specimens of minerals, coals, stones, and other natural substances 

 useful in agricultural, manufacturing, or the mechanical arts, and shall from 

 time to time as far as practicable add specimens of organic remains and other 

 objects of natural history peculiar to this State. 



Sec. 4. The commissioner shall prescribe a schedule of reasonable fees to 

 be charged and collected from all persons ha\ing scientific examinations, 

 assays, or cheuu'cal analyses made, and for certificates furnished under this 

 act, which fees shall when collected be paid into the State treasury to the 

 credit of the general revenue fund. 



Sec. 5. It shall be unlawful for the commissioner of agriculture, insurance, 

 statistics, and history, or any person employed by him or connected with his 

 oflice, to purchase all or any pnrt of any mine or mineral lands, or be in any 

 manner interested in such purchase, during the term of his office or employ- 

 ment. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be punished 

 by fine not less than $1,000, and shall be removed from his office or employment, 

 as the case may be. 



Sec. (',. That the sum of $15,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, 

 and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the State treasin-y 

 not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of 

 this act: Provided, That no expense in excess of the amount hereby appropri- 

 ated shall be incurred under the provisions of this act. 



