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(B) Compilation of Laws 



1879 — Act of March 3, 1879; 20 Stat. L, 394. (An act mak- 

 ing appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the 

 government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, 

 eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other pur- 

 poses.) 



For the salary of the Director of the Geological Survey, which 

 office is hereby established, under the Interior Department, who shall 

 be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of 

 the Senate, six thousand dollars: Provided, That this officer shall 

 have the direction of the Geological Survey, and the classification of 

 the public lands and examination of the geological structure, mineral 

 resources and products of the national domain. And that the Direc- 

 tor and members of the Geological Survey shall have no personal or 

 private interests in the lands or mineral wealth of the region under 

 survey, and shall execute no surveys or examinations for private par- 

 ties 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 Geographical Surveys West of the One-hundredth Meridian, un- 

 der 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, archaeology, 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 inves- 

 tigations in progress shall be deposited in the National Museum. 1 



1880 — Act of June 16, 1880; 21 Stat. L, 274. (An act mak- 

 ing appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of 

 the government for the fiscal year ending June thir- 

 tieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and for other 

 purposes.) 



And the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to detail not ex- 

 ceeding two officers of the Ordnance Corps to serve with the Geologi- 

 cal Survey: Provided, That in his judgment it can be done without 

 injury to the Service. 



1 Provision was further made in this act for the publication of an an- 

 nual report of operations to "accompany the annual report of the Secre- 

 tary of the Interior" and for the publication of special memoirs and re- 

 ports to "be issued in uniform quarto series if deemed necessary by the 

 Director, but otherwise in ordinary octavos." While not specifically re- 

 pealed these provisions are doubtless to be regarded as superseded by the 

 Joint Resolution of May 16, 1902 (32 Stat. L., 741). 



