n6 THE U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ,!! 



1894— Act of July 31, 1894; 28 Stat. L., 197. (Legislative, 

 Executive and Judicial Appropriation Act.) 



The Secretary of the Interior may hereafter authorize one of the 

 geologists to act as Director of the Geological Survey in the absence 

 of that officer. 



1896 — Act of June 11, 1896 *; 29 Stat. L., 435. (An act 

 making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of 

 the government for the fiscal year ending June thir- 

 tieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for 

 other purposes.) 



United States Geological Survey. * * * For topographic surveys 

 in various portions of the United States * * * Provided, That here- 

 after in such surveys west of the ninety-fifth meridian elevations 

 above a base level located in each area under survey shall be, deter- 

 mined and marked on the ground by iron or stone posts or permanent 

 bench marks, at least two such posts or bench marks to be established 

 in each township or equivalent area except in the forest-clad and 

 mountain areas, where at least one shall be established, and these 

 shall be placed, whenever practicable, near the township corners of 

 the public land surveys; and in the areas east of the ninety-fifth me- 

 ridian at least one such post or bench mark shall be similarly estab- 

 lished in each area equivalent to the area of a township of the public 

 land surveys. * * * 



189(5 — Act of February 26, 1896; 29 Stat. L., 465. (Joint 

 resolution extending the provisions of section sev- 

 enty-nine of "An Act providing for the public print- 

 ing and binding and the distribution of public docu- 



*The Act of March 2, 1895, provided for the incorporation into the 

 .report of the Director of the report of the mineral resources of the 

 United States, and made the further provision "and that the separate 

 (chapters on any given mineral product, such as iron, coal, building stone, 

 and so forth, shall be printed as rapidly as transmitted for publication; 

 [that a pamphlet edition of any chapter shall be printed for distribution 

 on the request of the Director of the Geological Survey, approved by 

 the Secretary of the Interior, the size of the edition to be controlled by 

 the importance of the mineral treated; that hereafter papers for the Di- 

 rector's annual report that are of a strictly economic character shall be 

 lissued in pamphlet form, in the same manner as prescribed above for the 

 Teport on the mineral resources; that the entire cost of paper, printing, 

 and binding of all of the above provided for pamphlets shall not exceed 

 •two thousand dollars." While not specifically repealed, these provisions 

 are doubtless to be regarded as superseded by the Joint Resolution of 

 May 16, 1902 (32 Stat. L., 741). 



