GEOLOGICAL. AND STATUIIAL HISTORY SURVEYS. 506 



In 1864 a futile attempt ut resuscitating tlie State survey was 

 made by the passage of the following: 



It is hereiy enacted hy the General Assembly of the State of Vermont: 



Section L The office of the State geologist is hereby continued, with a view 

 10 encourage the further development of the mineral wealth of the Stata 

 >Aud it shall he the duty of the State geologist hereinafter n:uned to give 

 counsel respecting the openings to he made in mines and quarries, when de- 

 sired hy the owners thereof, and faithfully to advise and assist all such per- 

 sons as may employ him in an attempt to discover new mines and quarries, or 

 to encourage the workings of those already discovered. 



Sec. 2. The assistant State geologist under the late survey, Albert D. Hager, 

 of Cavendish, is hereby appointed and confirmed as State geologist of Ver- 

 mont, for the purpose contemplated by this act: Provided, however, That 

 In no case and under no circumstances shall such geologist charge or receive 

 from the State anything for expenses or services rendered, but in accepting 

 said office it is understood that he looks to his employers for any compensa- 

 tion that he may reasonably deserve to have for any professional services so 

 by him rendered. 



Sec. 3. The geologist shall keep a record of such new facts relating to the 

 geology of the State as shall come to his knowledge, and transmit a copy of 

 the same to the governor, when requested by him, for the use of the State. 



Sec. 4. This act shall take effect from its passage. 



Approved November 22, 1S64, 



It could scarcely have been expected that any original work of 

 value would be accomplished under a law which, as a matter of fact, 

 simply threw the influence of the State in favor of private enterprise. 

 So far as publication is concerned nothing whatever came from the 

 appointment and one is not surprised to find among the laws of 1870 

 the following: 



It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Vermont: 



Section 1. The governor shall appoint a State geologist, who shall hold his 

 office until another is appointed in his stead under the act entitled "An act 

 for the appointment of State geologist," approved November 22, 1S84, in the 

 place of Albert D. Hager, who has removed from this State ; and so much of 

 section 2 of said act as relates to the appointment of said Ilager to that office 

 is hereby repealed. 



Sec. 2. This act .shall take effect from and after its passage. 



Approved November 22, 1S70. 



Under this law the governor gave the appointment of State geolo- 

 gist to Hiram Cutting. Two years later the following acts were 

 passed : 



An act providing for additions to the collections of the State cabinet. 



It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Vermont: 

 Section 1. A sum not exceeding $200 per annum for the next two years la 

 appropriated for the pui-pose of defraying the necessary expenses of the State 

 cabinet; said sum to be expended by the curator in the collection of such 

 specimens as he may deem of public value and properly labeling the same. 



Sec. 2. The auditor of accounts is hereby directed to dr;iw his order on the 

 Slate treasurer, at such times and for such sums, not exceeding the sum men- 



