8 THE U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 



solidate all surveys of mensuration in a single service to be 

 organized around the Coast and Geodetic Survey were 

 dropped, but the following was agreed on for insertion in the 

 sundry civil appropriation bill : 



For the salary of the Director of the Geological Survey, 

 which office is hereby established, under the Interior Depart- 

 ment, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with 

 the advice and consent of the Senate, $6,000; provided, that 

 this officer shall have the direction of the Geological Survey, 5 

 and the classification of the public lands and examination of 

 the Geological Structure, 5 mineral resources, and products of 

 the national domain, and that the Director and members of 

 the Geological Survey shall have no personal or private in- 

 terests in the lands or mineral wealth Of the region under 

 survey, and shall execute no surveys or examinations for pri- 

 vate parties or corporations ; and the geological and geograph- 

 ical survey of the Territories, and the geographical and geo- 

 logical survey of the Rocky Mountain region, under the De- 

 partment of the Interior, and the geographical surveys west 

 of the one hundredth meridian, under the War Department, 

 are hereby discontinued, to take effect on the 30th day of 

 June, 1879. And all collections of rocks, minerals, soils, 

 fossils, and objects of natural history, archaeology, and eth- 

 nology, made by the Coast and Interior Survey, the Geologi- 

 cal 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 classifi- 

 cation of the public lands and examination of the geological 

 structure, mineral resources and products of the national do- 

 main, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of 

 the Interior, $100,000. * * * 



The publications of the Geological Survey shall consist of 

 the annual report of operations, geological and economic maps 

 illustrating the resources and classification of the lands, and 

 reports upon general and economic geology and paleontology. 

 The annual report of operations of the Geological Survey shall 

 accompany the annual report of the Secretary of the Interior. 

 All special memoirs and reports of said Survey shall be issued 



B The capitalization of these words, which appears in the Statutes 

 (Vol. 20, p. 394), is doubtless a typographical error. 



