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officer shall have the direction of the Geological Survey, and the 
classification of the public lands and examination of the Geo- 
logical Structure, mineral resources and products of the National 
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omain, And that the Director a 
surveys or examinations for private parties or corporations; and 
the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, and 
the Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain 
Region, under the Department of the Interior, and the Geo- 
graphical Surveys West of the One hundredth Meridian, under 
the War Department, are hereby discontinued, to take effect on 
the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. 
And all collections of rocks, minerals, soils, fossils, and objects 
of natural history, archeology, and ethnology, made by the 
Coast and Interior Survey, the Geological Survey, or by any 
other parties for the Government of the United States, when no 
longer needed for investigations in progress, shall be deposited in 
the National Museum. : 
“For the expenses of the Geological Survey and the classification 
of the public lands and examination of the Geological structure ; 
Tuineral resources an roducts of the National Domain, to be 
expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, one 
hundred thousand dollars ; ; oye 
“For the expense of a commission on the ee doe existing 
Survey, shall receive other compensation for their services upo 
Said commission than their salaries, respectively, except their 
traveling expenses, while engaged on said duties; and it shall be 
the duty of this commission to report to Congress within one year 
from the time of its organization ; first, a codification of the present 
laws relating to the survey and disposition of the public domain ; 
second, a system and standard of classification of public lands ; as 
arable, irrigable, timber, pasturage, swamp, coal, mineral lands 
and such other classes as may be deemed proper, having = 
Tegard to humidity of climate, supply of water for eerscation, = 
other physical characteristics; third, a system of land parcelling 
omic uses of the several classes of 
may deem 
ern portion of the United States to actual settlers. 
publications of the Geological Survey shall consist of the 
