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layed, to meet the views supposed to be entertained in passing the 

 resolve. To find, and preserve the proper medium, will require much 

 discretion, and good judgment ; and confident reliance is had upon 

 your disposition to bring the survey into the narrowest limits, as to 

 expense and time, consistent with its great objects. As to expense 

 as it of course cannot exceed the appropriation, so it is desirable that 

 it should be brought as far within it as practicable, without sacrificing 

 the objects of the survey. The amount of your compensation will be 

 submitted to the Council for their consideration, at the next meeting 

 of the Board. 



You will, from time to time, as you may accomplish such portions 

 of the survey as may be safely published, communicate the same to 

 the Executive ; and, it is considered highly desirable, that an ample 

 specimen of the work should be in readiness, to be laid before the 

 General Court at their session in January next. 



Provision having been made, at the last Session of the Legislature, 

 for a mineralogical, geological, botanical, and zoological survey of the 

 State, with a view to agricultural benefit, it is submitted to you, con- 

 sidering the great extent and variety of objects, properly falling within 

 your commission, to treat more summarily those, which are included 

 within the province of the other surveys; as, for instance j the chemical 

 analysis of soils, which is expressly provided for in the geological sur- 

 vey ; and the forest trees, and insects, which will be naturally objects 

 of inquiry to those employed in making the botanical and zoological 

 survey of the State, as they are particularly instructed to direct their 

 inquiries with a view to agricultural benefit. You will also find by 

 the hundred and ninety-ninth chapter of the acts of the last Session of 

 the Legislature, that provision is made by law, for obtaing statistical 

 information in relation to certain branches of industry within the 

 Commonwealth. It will appear from the provisions of the act referred 

 to, that many of the subjects on which information is to be collected, 

 fall within the range of an agricultural survey. The official returns 

 under this act will be open to your examination ; and, it is supposed, 

 will relieve you from the necessity of instituting inquiry yourself, on 

 some points to which you might otherwise feel it proper to give your 

 attention. 



It is supposed that a period of two years will be sufficient to enable 

 you to accomplish the survey in a manner designed by the Legislature ; 

 and, in such a way, as to reflect credit on yourself, and be productive 

 of great good to the community. 



