GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEYS. 533 



An act relating to the preparation, publication, and distrit)ution of the final report of 



the geological survey. 



The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, 

 do enact as follows: 



Sfction 1. That iu tlie proparatiou of the final report, the ehiof iroologist be, 

 and he is hereby, authorized to collate the general geology and the leading facts 

 and principles relating to the material resources of the State, together witb 

 practical suggestions as to the methods of detecting and utilizing the same, so 

 as to constitute the material for a volume suited to the wants of explorers, 

 miners, landowners, and manufacturers, who use crude native products, and 

 to the needs of the schools of the State and the masses of intelligent people 

 who are not familiar with the principles of geology ; said volume to be written 

 in clear, plain language, with explanations of technical terms, and to be prop- 

 erly illustrated with maps and diagrams, and to be so arranged as to constitute 

 a Icey to the most i)erfect underst;mding of the whole report. 



Skc. 2. Tlie annual reports for the years 1873, 1874, and 1875 are hereby 

 placed in the hands of the chief geologist to be used in the preparation of his 

 final report. 



Sec. 3. The commissioners of public printing are hereby authorized and 

 directed to procure the printing, under the supervision of the chief geologist, 

 of 7,000 copies of the volume provided for by section 1 of this act, and of 2,500 

 copies of the complete report. 



Sec. 4. The said commissioners arc also liereby empowered to procure, on 

 the best terms they can make, such plates, cuts, engraved stones, and other 

 means of representation as may be necessary to properly illustrate the report; 

 and they are directed to contract for the delivery, after the printing of the 

 report, of such plates, cuts, engraved stones, and other means of illustration, 

 to the State. 



Sec. 5. Tlie said commissioners are hereby further authorized to determine, 

 v.'ith the advice of the chief geologist, the form in which the report shall be 

 pi'inted, and to make exception of the printing of said report in advertising 

 for bids for the public printing, and in making contracts for the same, as 

 provided for in chapter 243 of the General Laws of 1874, if in their judgment 

 the nature of the publication makes it desirable to do so, and are empowered 

 to make special contract for the printing of said report : Provided, They shall 

 in no case pay a rate exceeding that paid the State printer: And provided 

 further. That they shall not violate any existing contract. 



Sec. 6. r]ach school district within the State shall be entitled to one copy of 

 the volume provided for by section 1 of this act; each high school and Incor- 

 porated academy to G; each normal school and incorporated college, to 15; 

 and the State University to 25 copies, respectively, of said volume. Each mem- 

 ber of the legislature of 187G and 1877, every ofRcer of State, each judge of 

 the supreme court, shall be entitled to two copies of the complete report. Each 

 ofRcer of the present senate and assembly, each incorporated college or acad- 

 emy, each normal school, each high school, e.ich State charitable or jienal insti- 

 tution, each person who has rendered assistance in the prosecution of the sur- 

 vey, each scientific society in the State, and each town or city library, estab- 

 lished under the provisions of chapter 80 of the General Laws of 1872 shall be 

 entitled to one complete copy. The State Universitj% the Wisconsin Academy of 

 Science, Arts, and Letters, the Historical Society, and the State library, shall 

 each be entitled to 10 complete copies. The remaining copies shall be placed in 

 the hands of the governor and chief geologist for distribution to public libraries. 



