144 PROCEEDINGS OF THE INDIANA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



The Collett Survey, 1880-1884. 



As has already been noted, the act passed in 1869 established a "Depart- 

 ment of Geology and Natural Science" and created the office of State Geologist 

 which Cox filled for ten ^-ears. It fixed the salary at $1,800 and appropriated 

 S5,000 per annum, out of which this salary and all other expenses were paid. 

 This appropriation was, in 1873, increased to S8,000 per annum. 



For some time there had been a demand that a bureau of Statistics be 

 established in the State. Jas. D. ("Blue Jeans") Williams had become 

 Governor in 1876. He was noted for his frugality, and was opposed to creat- 

 ing a new department. A compromise was finally effected by which the new 

 Bureau was to be combined with that of the already existing Department of 

 Geology, and an act was passed and approved March 29, 1879 "establishing 

 a State Bureau of Statistics and Geology." Those sections of this act which 

 pertain especially to this paper ai'e as t'oUows: 



Section. 1. — Be it enacied by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, 

 That a Department of Statistics and Geologj' is hereby established for the 

 collection and dissemination of information, hereinafter provided, by annual 

 printed reports made to the Governor and Legislature of the State. 



Sec. 2. — The Governor is hereby authorized to appoint, as soon after 

 the passage of this act as convenient, and thereafter biennially, some suitable 

 person to act as Chief, who shall have power to employ such assistants as 

 he may deem necessary, and said officer and assistants shall constitute the 

 Indiana Bureau of Statistics and Geology, with headquarters to be furnished 

 by the State; Provided, That such Chief of the Bureau of Statistics shall be 

 an expert in the sciences of geology and chemistry. 



See. 3. — The duties of said bureau shall be to collect, systematize, tabu- 

 late and present in annual reports, as hereinafter provided, statistical in- 

 formation and details relating to agriculture, manufacturing, mining, com- 

 merce, education, labor, social and sanitary conditions, vital statistics, 

 marriages and deaths, and to the permanent prosperity of the productive 

 industry of the people of the State. 



Sec. o. — The Chief of said Bureau shall be the curator of the geological 

 cabinet, museum, chemical laboratory, apparatus and library, and shall, 

 from time to time, as may be ])racticable, add specimens to the cabinet of 

 minerals, organic remains, and other objects of natund history peculiar to the 

 State and other States and countries. 



Sec. 6. — The annual compensation of the Chief of said Bureau shall be 

 twelve hundred dollars, to be paid out of the Treasury of the State, as pro- 

 \'ided by law for similar expenditures; and in addition thereto, the sum of 

 twenty-five hundred dollars be and the same is herel)y annually appropriafefl 

 out of any funds in the State Treasury-, not otherwise appropriated, idr 

 two years, to be expended, or so much of it as may become necessary in the 

 discretion of the Chief of said Bureau, in carrying out the purpose of said 

 Department, as herein provided. It shall be the duty of the Chief of said 



