124 PROCEEDINGS OF THE INDIANA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



to meet political and other exigencies. The act creating the office, approved 

 March 5, 1869, was as follows: 



An Act providing for a Geological Survey and for the collecting and pre- 

 serving of a Geological and Mineralogieal Cabinet of the Natural History 

 of this State, and creating the Office of State Geologist, defining his duties, 

 fixing his salary, and appropriating a sufficient sum of money to defray the 

 necessary expenses of said Survey and for the collection and preservation 

 of said Cabinet. 



(Approved March .5, 1869.) 



Section 1. — Be il enacted hy the General Assemhl]/ of the State of Indiana, 

 That a Department of Geology and Xatm^al Science is hereby established 

 in connection ^vith and under the control of the Indiana State Board of Agri- 

 culture for the collection and dissemination of information in relation to Geol- 

 ogy and other Scientific investigations, to be made as hereinafter proAaded 

 for the promotion of Agriculture, mining, the arts and manufacturing. 



See. 2. — The Governor is hereby authorized to appoint a suitable person 

 as State Geologist to take charge of said Department, and said Geologist 

 shall hold his office for a term of two years and imtil his successor shall be 

 appointed as aforesaid, with an annual compensation of SI, 800 to be paid in 

 quarterly payments; and in addition said Geologist shall be paid also for the 

 necessary traveling expenses incurred while engaged in prosecuting the field 

 surveys and for the ch"mical reagents used in the analytic work. 



See. 3. — Said State Geologist shall have a thorough practical knoAvledge 

 of Geology and Analytical Chemistry, and shall establish his office at In- 

 dianapolis in a room or rooms furnished him by the State Board of Agri- 

 culture and he shall be required to supply himself free of cost to the State, 

 with all the apparatus necessary to fit up an analytical laboratory, adapted 

 to making chemical analyses of soils, ores, metals, mineral waters, or any other 

 substances that may be thought of value or of general interest to the citizens 

 of the State. 



Sec. 4. — Said State Geologist shall from time to time make a survey of 

 a portion of the State in order to be able to complete a thorough geological 

 survey of the whole State, and it shall be his duty also to collect, properly 

 label and arrange in the Agi'icultural rooms, specimens of the ores, coals, 

 building stones, clays, soils and organic remains of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, 

 fishes, crustaceans, moUusca, insects and all other objects of natural history 

 peculiar to the State, and as far as practicable of other States and countries 

 also. 



Sec. 5. — The State Geologist shall also be required to issue Annual 

 Reports to the Indiana State Board of Agriculture, embracing the full results 

 of his labors each year; which reports shall l>e published along with the Pro- 

 ceedings of the said State Board of Agriculture. 



See. 6. — That in order to carry the provisions of this act into effect, 

 the sum of .$5,000 be and is hereby annually appropriated and placed in charge 



