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Governor together with such vouchers as it may be practicable for him to obtain ; 

 and the Governor shall lay the whole before the General Assembly, together with 

 the report of progress of the State Geologist. 



Sec. 4. All acts and parts of acts in contravention of the provisions of this 

 act are hereby repealed. 



Sec. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication 

 in the Iowa State Register and Evening Statesman, newspapers published at 



Des Moines. 



JOHN SCOTT, 



President of the Senate. 

 JOHN RUSSELL, 



Speaker of the House of 



Approved, April 8th, 1868. 



SAMUEL MERRILL, Governor: 1 



By reference to these legislative acts the readers of this 

 report will under stand the reason why much matter that 

 usually finds a place in reports of this kind is excluded from 

 the present volume, as well as why the work is again discon- 

 tinued before its completion. The field-work for the years 

 1868 and 1869 was principally confined to northwestern Iowa 

 and to a general review of various portions of the State that 

 had been before examined. 



The Thirteenth General Assembly failed to make any 

 provision for the continuation of the work, but passed the 

 following law providing for the publication of this report: 



CHAPTER 111. 



AN ACT Providing for the Publication of the Report of the State Geologist 

 and for the Distribution of the same. 



Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That the 

 Census Board be and are hereby authorized to contract with the present State 

 Printer for three thousand copies of the report of the. State Geologist as now 

 presented to this General Assembly ; Provided, the expense shall not exceed ten 

 dollars per copy for the first one thousand copies, and four dollars per copy for 

 each additional copy. Said report to be equal in every respect, mechanically, to 

 Hall's Geological Report of Iowa, or to the Illinois Geological Reports; the 

 engravings, views, maps, diagrams, etc., to be equally as well executed ; and the 



