HISTORY OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



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to exemplify and elucidate the same, to the secretary of state, who shall lay such report 

 before the legislature. 



Sec. 5. And be it further enacted. That it shall be the duty of the said state geolo- 

 gist to cause to be represented on the map of the state, by colors and other appropriate 

 means, the various areas occupied by the different geological formations in the state, 

 and to mark thereon the localities of the respective beds or deposits of the various min- 

 eral substances discovered ; and, on the completion of the survey, to compile a memoir 

 of the geology and mineralogy of the state, comprising a complete account of the 

 leading subjects and discoveries which have been embraced in the survey. 



Sec. 6. And be it further enacted. That it shall also be the duty of the said state 

 geologist to forward to the secretary of state, from time to time during the progress of 

 such survey, such specimens of the rocks, ores, coals, soils, fossils, and other mineral 

 substances discovered and examined, as may be proper and necessary to form a com- 

 plete cabinet collection of specimens of geology and mineralogy of the state ; and the 

 said secretary shall cause the same to be deposited in proper order in some convenient 

 room in the state capitol, there to be preserved for public inspection. 



Sec. 7. And be it further enacted. That for the purpose of carrying into effect the 

 provisions of this act, the sum of two thousand dollars is hereby annually appropriated 

 for the term of three years, to be expended under the direction of the governor : pro- 

 vided, however, that the salaries of the said state geologist and his assistant shall not 

 commence until they have entered upon the execution of their duties, and, upon the 

 completion of said survey and of the duties connected therewith, they shall wholly 

 cease and determine. 



MOSES NORRIS, Jr., 

 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 



Approved June 24, 1839. 



JOHN PAGE, 



Governor. 



JAMES McK. WILKINS, 



President of the Senate. 



In accordance with the provisions of this act, Dr. Charles T. Jackson, 

 of Boston, was appointed State Geologist September 10, 1839, ^ri'i en- 

 tered upon the duties of the office June i, 1840. He devoted the prin- 

 cipal part of three years to his researches. It was understood and 

 agreed between the parties that the surveyor should devote four months 

 to the researches required in the field, and that four months should be 

 spent in the analysis of the minerals obtained ; but, as the laboratory 

 work proved more difficult and extensive than was at first apprehended, 

 nearly the whole remaining four months of the year were occupied in the 



