" SEC. 3. The following sums of money are hereby appropriated, out 

 of any money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for 

 the prosecution of the geological survey of the State, and for the six 

 teenth and seventeenth fiscal years : For salary of the State Geologist, 

 nine thousand dollars, to be drawn monthly on the last day of each month ; 

 for salary of two assistants, six thousand six hundred dollars, to be drawn 

 in the same manner as the salary of the State Geologist; for publication 

 of two volumes of report, six thousand dollars; for office rent, and 

 expenses of survey in mining districts, and experiments on ores, and all 

 incidental expenses of work, ten thousand dollars, to be drawn one half 

 each fiscal year. 



" SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect immediately." 



The above Act was approved by the Governor, April fourth, eighteen 

 hundred and sixty-four. 



Previous to the passage of this Act the following sums had been 

 appropriated for the continuance of the survey : 



At the time of the passage of the original Act. 



By the Legislature of 1860-61 



By the Legislature of 1861-62 



By the Legislature of 1862-63 



Making in all 



$20,000 

 15,000 

 15,000 

 20,000 



$70,000 



Besides this, three thousand dollars was appropriated by the Legisla 

 ture of eighteen hundred and sixty-one and sixty-two for printing one 

 volume of the report. 



At the time the Legislature of eighteen hundred and sixty-three and 

 sixty-four met the new Constitution of the State was in operation, and 

 the sessions being now biennial, instead of annual, it was necessary to 

 provide funds for continuing the survey for two years. Unfortunately 

 the State was at this time in great trouble, the drought of the two pre 

 vious winters having most seriously affected both the agricultural and 

 mining interests, and given rise to a widespread feeling of alarm. It 

 was therefore with difficulty that any appropriation could be secured for 

 the survey, and that which was obtained was far from being adequate to 

 the carrying on of the work on a scale commensurate with its impor 

 tance. Indeed, it was but just enough to keep the survey alive, in 

 addition to continuing the preparation of the materials already in hand 

 for publication. The appropriations for the survey in the Act cited 

 above, added to those of previous Legislatures, make the total amount 

 provided for the fieldwork and salaries in all departments, from the com 

 mencement of the survey up to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred arid aixty- 

 six, ninety-five thousand six hundred dollars, or a little less than sixteen 

 thousand dollars a year on the average. Besides this, however, there 

 has been nine thousand dollars appropriated for publication, which should 

 not be charged to the survey, as this amount will be refunded to the 

 State by the sale of the volumes published, it being provided in both 

 Acts that our publications shall be sold and the money paid into the 

 Common School Fund. 



The course and progress of the geological and topographical fieldwork 



