498 BULLETIN lOy, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



tiie State, enibrticing therein ii full and .scieutilic oxamiuation aud description vt 

 its roclvS, soils, metals, and minerals; make careful and complete assays and 

 analyses of the same, and prepare the results of his labors for publication 

 under the three following titles, to wit : 



First. Physical Geography, Scientific Geology, and iSlineralogy. 



Second. Economical Geology, embracing Botany and Agriculture. 



Third. (General Zoology of the State. 



Sec. 3. Whenever sufficient facts aud materials shall have been collected upoji 

 the first of the above-named subjects to form a volume of not less than 500 

 pages, octavo, the State naturalist shall make report thereof to the secretary of 

 state, with an estimate of the size and probable cost of publication, who shall 

 immediately issue a circular addressed to the several town clerks in the State, 

 specifying the nr.ture, sixe, jiumber of engravings, and estimated cost of the work, 

 aud requesting them to post up such circular in their respective offices; also 

 to convey notices of such circular to the public by such other means as they may 

 adopt to receive subscriptions for the work, and within 40 days from the time 

 of their receiving such circular return such subscriptions to the snid secretary; 

 and said secretary shall also transmit like circulars to all the publishers of 

 newspapers printed within this State, with a request for gratuitous publication 

 of the same. 



Sec. 4. Immediately upon the expiration of the above-named period and the 

 return of snid subscriptions the secretary of state shall issue proposals for 

 printing said work, specifying the size an<i quantity of engravings, style of 

 binding, qujility of paper, and number of volumes required, which shall not ex- 

 ceed more than one-fifth the whole number of subscriptions returned ; the period 

 within which said work shall be compieted, and the time and place for opening 

 bids; and at the said specified time and place the said secretary shall open and 

 examine the bids, and the lowest bid, having due regard to the ability and re- 

 sponsibility of the person making the same, shall be accepted. And the said 

 secretary shall take a bond from the person whose bid is accepted, conditioned 

 upon faitliful performance of his said contract, in a sum not less than double 

 the cost of the work. And when the said work shall be completed and accepted 

 by said secretary he shall cause to be sent to the constable of each town such 

 number of volumes as have been subscribed for in such town, with a list of such 

 subscriptions, and each of said constables shall deliver the said volumes, collect 

 the actual cost thereof, and pay over the same into the treasury of the State. 



Sec. 5. Whenever sufficient facts and materials shall have been collected and 

 arranged under the second and third titles specified in section 2 the same shall 

 be published in their order, agreeably to the provisions of sections 3 and 4 of 

 this act. 



Sec. 6. The sum of $1,000 annually is hereby appropriated for the term of 

 three years, and until otherwise ordered by the legislature of this State, for the 

 purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act. 



Sec. 7. All claims under this act shall be presented to the auditor of accounts 

 for allowance, who shall draw orders on the treasurer of the State for the 

 amount he shnli find due, equal to but not exceeding in any year the annual 

 appropriation. 



Approved December 6, 1853. 



As will be noted, the survey as proposed had no connection with 

 any other institution and was to be sustained by annual appropri- 

 ations. 



