82 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
authorized to execute local topographical surveys for special pur- 
poses, 8 such, for instance, as the subterraneous surveys of min ing 
districts and metallic deposits, om 
Each of the three organizations, thus defined, should make an 
annual report of its operations to the Secretary of the Interior, 
annual report of operations, geomuine and economic a illus- 
trating the resources and classification of the land, r s upon 
eneral and semneniea) pos ees in all its Gace ge the 
necessarily connected paleontolo 
All colle coe made ed the Coast and Interior, and the 
logical Surveys, when no longer needed for the investigations 7 . 
progress, should be Se, to the National Museum. af 
e Committee recommend that, upon the ag n of the 
United States Coast and Interior ee ey and the United States 
Geological Survey, a commission be formed, to consist of the 
Commissioner of the Land Office, Superintendent of the Coast 
and Interior Survey, Director of the United States Geological 
mill ~ Chief of Eugineers of the Army, and three other 
pers o be appointed by the President, who shall take im 
Consideration the codification “ad the pre i ' 
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reports of operations of the tieo 0 surveys accompany the report 
the Secretary of the Interior; that the special memoirs and rep? 
of both surveys be issued in uniform quarto series; that the 
