GEOLOGICAL AXl) NATURAL HISTORY SUKVEYS. olO 



pensiitiou to each commissioner .shall be at a certain rate per annum, to be 

 agreed upon, and not exceeding the rate of $2,000 per annum; and that pay- 

 ment will be nuide only for such part of each year as such commissioner may 

 actually be engaged in the discharge of his duty as commissioner. 



Sec. 4. Should the board of regents of the State university neglect to make 

 suitable provision for the acconuuodatiou of the collections, it shall be the duty 

 of the commissioners, with the advice and consent of the governor, to provide 

 suitable rooms elsewhere in the city of Madison. 



Sec. 5. In case of a vacancy or vacancies occurring in the commission by this 

 act provided, tlie governor shall appoint some suitable person or persons to flll 

 the same ; and he may remove any member for incompetency or neglect of duty, 

 after giving such member due notice of the charge against him, and a full 

 opportunity to be confronted with his accuser and to make his defense. 



Sec. 6. To 'carry out the provisions of this act the sum of $6,000 per annum 

 for the term of six years is hereby appropriated, to be drawn from the treasury 

 quarterly on warrant of the governoi*, and paid to the persons entitled to re- 

 ceive the same; which sum shall be in full for salaries of commissionei'S, as- 

 sistants, rent of room, and all other expenses incident to said survey, exclusive 

 of printing the annual reports of said commissioners. 



Sec. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 



Approved March 3, 1857. 



Administration. — It would appear from correspondence to which 

 the author has had access that Mr. Carr was the prime instigator 

 in the passage of this bill, though worliing in more or less collabora- 

 tion with Charles AVhittlesej^ and Edward Daniels. In a letter from 

 Carr to Hall, in anticipation of the passage of the bill, under date 

 of January 28, 1857, the directorship of the survey is offered the 

 latter, who, in a reply dated E'ebruary 3 following, said that he could 

 not apply for the same so long as Daniels was a candidate, as he 

 had alread}' agreed to give him his support. Under date of March 

 26 Carr again wrote Hall : 



The governor and all others wlio are interested in the survey look to you as 

 the responsible man in geology. The governor understands Daniels and said 

 to me that you and myself, being a ma.ioritj', could tirrange matters. 



The effective force of the survey as finally organized under thi.-i 

 act was James Hall, Ezra S. Carr, and Edward Daniels, as noted in 

 the bill of its establishment. The salaries, though not absolutely 

 fixed by law, were by it limited to a sum not exceeding $2,000 a year, 

 and it was further expressly stipulated that payment should be made 

 only for such part of each year as the commissioner should be ac- 

 tually engaged in the discharge of his duties. 



The actual survey did not, according to O. W. Wight,' begin until 

 the year following (1858). It was first proposed by Hall that the 

 three commissioners named contribute equally out of their allotment 

 to defray the expenses of Charles Whittlesey in making a survey 

 of the northern part of the State. The plan does not seem to have 



' .\nnua! Kcport of Opolojrical Sui-vpy of Wisconsin, 1875, p. 69. 



