The Sttrvey and Map of Massachusetts. ^9 



Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 



Resolve to Provide for a Topographical Survey and Map of the 

 Commonwealth. (Chapter 72, 1884.) 



Resolved, That the governor^ with the advice and consent of 

 the council, be and is hereby authorized to appoint a Commission 

 to consist of three citizens of the Commonwealth, qualified by 

 education and experience in topographical science, to confer with 

 the director or representative of the United States Geological 

 Survey, and to accept its cooperation with this Commonwealth in 

 the preparation and completion of a contour topographical survey 

 and map of this Commonwealth hereby authorized to be made. 

 Said Commission shall serve without pay, but all their necessary 

 expenses shall be approved by the governor and council, and paid 

 out of the treasury. This Commission shall have power to arrange 

 with the Dii'ector or representative of the United States Geologi- 

 cal Survey concerning this survey and map, its scale, method, exe- 

 cution, form and all details of the work in behalf of the Common- 

 wealth, and may accept or reject the plans of the work presented 

 by the United States Geological Survey. Said Commission may 

 expend in the prosecution of this work a sum equal to that which 

 shall be expended therein by the United States Geological Survey, 

 but not exceeding ten thousand dollars, during the year ending 

 on the first day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and 

 not to exceed the sum of fifteen thousand dollars in any one year 

 thereafter, and the total cost to the Commonwealth of the survey 

 shall not exceed forty thousand dollars. 



In pursuance of this resolution Gov. Robinson appointed the 

 following gentlemen as commissioners on the part of the State : 

 Gen. Francis A. Walker, President of the Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology, Mr. Henry L. Whiting, Assistant U. S. Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey and Prof. IST. S. Shaler of Harvard College. The 

 Director of the Geological Survey, upon being notified of this 

 action, laid before the commissioners a proposition for a joint 

 survey in the following terms : 



1. It is proposed to make a topographic map of the State of 

 Massachusetts, the expense of which shall be borne conjointly by 

 the Geological Survey and the State of Massachusetts. 



2. The Borden triangulation and the Coast and Geodetic Survey 

 triangulation will be utilized as 'far as possible, and additional 

 triangulation will be made to such extent as may be necessary. 



