20 fokp:st fires ix nokth cauoi.i.xa. 



of the Survey ; it shall also cause to be prepared for publication such other 

 reports, with necessary illustrations and maps, as will ade(iuately set forth 

 the geology and material resources of the State, all such reports, illustrations, 

 and maps to be printed and distributed as the Geological Board may direct 

 in editions of ."J.OOO copies cadi at the expense of the State as other public 

 documents. 



Sec. 4434. Appropriation. The sum of $10,000 annu.iUy. or so much thereof 

 as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury 

 not otherwise appropriated for the purpose of carryiiii: out tlie provisions of 

 this chapter. 



Soon after the passage of this hiw and the general reorganization of 

 the Survey by the new State Geologist, Joseph Hyde Pratt, three im- 

 portant divisions, /. e., the Highway, the Fisheries, and the Forestry 

 divisions, were made ; other interests of the Survey, such as the geologi- 

 cal and mining work, were not delegated to any particular division. 



The Highway Division has organized and pushed the good roads move- 

 ment in this State by holding meetings, furnishing speakers in support 

 of local road bond issues, and founding and assisting the North Carolina 

 Good Roads Association. It has administered and carried out the pro- 

 visions of the highway assistance law (chapter 915, Public Laws 1909) 

 which enables the Geological Board "to advise with the .township and 

 county authorities in the building and improvement of the public roads, 

 by sending to the tOAViiship or county a competent road engineer, who 

 ■will assist them in locating their improved roads, advise them," etc. 



The Fisheries Division has supervised the administration of the old 

 fish, commission law (chapter 977, Public Laws 1907), which protected 

 the northern part of Pamlico Sound and the inner waters of Albemarle 

 Sound. It has consistently urged the extension of this law to the whole 

 coast, which, owing to its unceasing efforts, has just been accomplished. 



The Forestry Division, which was regularly organized in 1908, has 

 examined and reported on the forests of the State, studied the forest fire 

 question, and continuously urged forest fire legislation, and has effect- 

 ively aided in the organization and support of the Xorth Carolina For- 

 estry Association. It has taken part in meetings, has issued publications 

 and statements to the press, and carried on general propaganda work. 

 It has at several different times received the cooperation of th(> United 

 States Department of Agriculture in investigative forestry woi-k. 



It seems, therefore, only natural and appropriate that the administra- 

 tion of the forestry law, which has for eight or ten years been unceas- 

 ingly advocated by the Survey and the need for which has been set forth 

 in most of its forestry publications, should be committed to it. Tlie 

 Forester of the Survev is the onlv technical forester eninlovcd bv tlie 



