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  Forty-seventh 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  State 
  Museum. 
  

  

  work 
  night 
  and 
  day 
  and 
  that 
  it 
  would 
  require 
  about 
  two 
  years 
  to 
  

   complete 
  the 
  shaft. 
  

  

  This 
  subject 
  was 
  first 
  brought 
  before 
  the 
  secretary 
  of 
  the 
  Kegents 
  

   and 
  afterwards 
  before 
  the 
  Regents 
  themselves 
  at 
  their 
  annual 
  

   meeting, 
  recommending 
  that 
  some 
  person 
  be 
  employed 
  to 
  collect 
  

   information 
  regarding 
  the 
  rocks, 
  fossils, 
  etc., 
  which 
  would 
  be 
  

   exhumed 
  in 
  the 
  progress 
  of 
  the 
  work, 
  but 
  as 
  there 
  was 
  no 
  money 
  

   available 
  for 
  such 
  purposes 
  no 
  action 
  was 
  taken. 
  At 
  a 
  meeting 
  

   of 
  the 
  Museum 
  Committee 
  on 
  the 
  11th 
  of 
  February, 
  1891, 
  Hon. 
  

   Hamilton 
  Harris 
  offered 
  the 
  following 
  resolution 
  : 
  

  

  "To 
  enable 
  the 
  State 
  Geologist 
  to 
  accept 
  the 
  offer 
  of 
  the 
  

   Livonia 
  Salt 
  Company, 
  to 
  allow 
  the 
  State 
  without 
  charge, 
  to 
  

   make 
  records 
  of 
  the 
  geological 
  formations, 
  and 
  to 
  select 
  speci- 
  

   mens 
  of 
  value 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  salt 
  shaft, 
  covering 
  12x22 
  feet, 
  which 
  

   the 
  company 
  is 
  now 
  sinking 
  to 
  the 
  depth 
  of 
  2,000 
  feet 
  at 
  Livonia, 
  

   the 
  sum 
  of 
  $2,000." 
  

  

  This 
  resolution 
  was 
  incorporated 
  in 
  a 
  bill 
  which 
  also 
  provided 
  

   for 
  the 
  completion 
  of 
  the 
  palaeontology 
  and 
  the 
  geological 
  map. 
  

   This 
  bill 
  (Assembly 
  Bill 
  1441) 
  after 
  passing 
  the 
  Assembly 
  did 
  not 
  

   reach 
  the 
  Senate 
  in 
  time 
  to 
  receive 
  action 
  and 
  therefore 
  failed 
  to 
  

   become 
  a 
  law. 
  Under 
  these 
  circumstances 
  I 
  then 
  proposed, 
  first 
  

   to 
  the 
  secretary 
  of 
  the 
  Regents 
  and 
  afterwards 
  to 
  the 
  Committee 
  

   on 
  the 
  State 
  Museum, 
  that 
  the 
  money 
  apportioned 
  for 
  my 
  use 
  on 
  

   the 
  palaeontology 
  should 
  be 
  temporarily 
  used 
  for 
  the 
  employ- 
  

   ment 
  of 
  some 
  person 
  upon 
  the 
  ground 
  at 
  the 
  Livonia 
  shaft, 
  and 
  

   that 
  this 
  money 
  should 
  be 
  refunded 
  for 
  the 
  purpose 
  originally 
  

   intended. 
  At 
  a 
  later 
  period 
  this 
  proposition 
  was 
  accepted, 
  and 
  

   Mr. 
  D. 
  D. 
  Luther, 
  of 
  Naples, 
  commenced 
  work 
  in 
  May, 
  1891. 
  

   The 
  money 
  thus 
  appropriated 
  for 
  the 
  work 
  upon 
  the 
  Livonia 
  salt 
  

   shaft 
  was 
  sufficient 
  to 
  pay 
  for 
  the 
  services 
  and 
  contingent 
  

   expenses 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Luther 
  during 
  about 
  six 
  months, 
  and 
  at 
  the 
  

   annual 
  meeting 
  of 
  the 
  Regents 
  in 
  December 
  (1891) 
  we 
  were 
  in 
  

   debt 
  to 
  Mr. 
  Luther 
  for 
  a 
  month's 
  service, 
  and 
  it 
  was 
  proposed 
  to 
  

   abandon 
  the 
  undertaking, 
  since 
  no 
  money 
  had 
  been 
  received 
  from 
  

   the 
  Legislature. 
  At 
  this 
  juncture 
  I 
  again 
  proposed 
  that 
  the 
  

   money 
  which 
  had 
  been 
  apportioned 
  for 
  my 
  use 
  in 
  the 
  palaeonto- 
  

   logy 
  for 
  the 
  fiscal 
  year, 
  October 
  1891-1892, 
  should 
  be 
  temporarily 
  

   used 
  for 
  the 
  purpose 
  of 
  continuing 
  the 
  work, 
  since 
  its 
  abandon- 
  

  

  