olO BULLETIIV lOy, U.NITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



hereby aiitborized to be employed, in sueb manner and In such amount as to 

 the president and dircx^tors of the board of public works shall seem best, to 

 be paid upon their certificate out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise 

 appropriate<l, upon the warrant of the auditor of public accounts: Provided, 

 That the amount to be paid to the geologist and the assistant geologist shall not 

 exceed the sum of $3,000 per annum, to be api)ortioned and divided between 

 them in manner above directed, and tlie sum to be paid to the topographical 

 surveyor shall not exceed $1,000. 



5. Be it further enacted, That when the entire work hereby contemplated and 

 provided for shall have been fully completed, it shall be the duty of the geolo- 

 gist in charge thereof to make a general and final report thereon, embracing 

 in such report, in detail, the result of all surveys, examinations, and discoveries 

 ^vhich shall have been made, geological, chemical, and topographical, and all 

 other matters connected therewith, which may be considered by him as likely 

 to be in any manner useful to the public or interesting to science. He shall 

 also construct and prepare for engraving a complete geological map of the State, 

 showing not only the general geological structure thereof, but plainly and accu- 

 rately delineating the stratification of its principal rocks, and the position and 

 boundary of all the mineral deposits which may now be known or be ascer- 

 tained by the investigations which shall have been made, iiccompanying said 

 njap with such a series of sections or profiles as may bo necessary to a proper 

 exhibition of the geology of the region to which they may relate. The final 

 report, together with the map and the accompanying sections and profiles, the 

 president and directors of the board of public works shall communicate to the 

 general assembly as soon as may be, to be printed, engraved, published and 

 disposed of in such manner as to the said general assembly shall seem proper. 



6. Be it further enacted, That the mineral materials and other specimeng'. 

 which may be collected during the operations of the geologist and others who 

 may be engaged with him, shall be carefullj- preserved in some convenient apart- 

 ment of the library room, until otherwise provided for. A complete catalogue 

 of such specimens and materials shall be made out, and preserved in the same 

 apartment, showing the name, locality, and general properties and value of 

 e.och, as ascertained by the analysis to which it may have been subjected, and 

 referring to the corresponding number which shall be affixed to the specimen 

 itself. 



7. This act shall be in force from and after its passage thereof. 



This act was in 1841 repealed, though subsequent appropriations 

 were made for completing the work already in hand, as below: 



And be it further enacted, That the act entitled "An act to authorize a geo- 

 logical reconnoissance of the State, with a view to the chemical composition 

 of its soil and mineral waters," and all acts and parts of acts amendatorj 

 thereof, shall be and the same are hereby repealed, from and after the 1st day 

 of January next. 



To the geological survey, to defray charges and expenses incurred, although 

 the acts authorizing the survey have been repealed, from and after the 1st dny 

 of January, 1842, $4,000. 



To the geological survey to defray charges and expenses incurred, although 

 the acts authorizing the survey have been repe;iled from and after the 1st day 

 of January, 1S42, being the balance of the appropriation for last year, to com- 

 plete the geological survey, and not drawn on the 1st of October last, and there- 

 fore chargeable on the current year, $1.083.3.3. 



