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accompany each volume of his reports with a glossary. It shall also be his duty 

 to prepare, from time to time during the progress of the survey, communications 

 for publication in the newspapers of the State, provided it shall be done without 

 expense to the State, embodying such information in reference to the character and 

 quality of the soil, deposits of coal, minerals and other valuable substances as he 

 may deem of general interest and importance to the public. 



Sec 5. It shall be the duty of the State Geologist to cause collections to be 

 made of rocks, soils, fossils, coals, ores, and other mineral substances discovered or 

 examined, which shall be disposed of as follows, to- wit : all rare specimens of 

 which duplicates cannot be found, and all specimens from which descriptions or 

 illustrations are drawn for publication shall be deposited in the cabinet of the 

 State University. A full series of the best of such specimens as more particu- 

 larly exemplify the economic geology of the State shall be deposited in the 

 cabinet of the State Agricultural College. All other specimens shall be dis- 

 tributed to the cabinets of all other organized institutions of learning in the 

 State, giving preference to the State University, the State Agricultural College, 

 and the Medical College at Keokuk. 



Sec 6. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act the sum of 

 six thousand five hundred dollars is hereby annually appropriated for the term of 

 two years, out of such moneys in the treasury as are not otherwise appropriated. 

 This fund shall be drawn from time to time for the purposes of the survey on 

 requisitions signed by the State Geologist and approved by the Census Board. 

 The salary of the State Geologist shall be two thousand dollars annually and the 

 salary of his assistant shall be fixed by the State Geologist in such amounts, not 

 exceeding fifteen hundred dollars annually, and for such periods as he may deem 

 proper, but which shall not exceed the term of his own appointment. The rate 

 of pay of all other persons employed by the State Geologist shall be fixed by 

 him, but shall not exceed the usual price paid for the kind of labor performed, 

 nor in any case shall it exceed four dollars per day. 



Sec. 7. All acts and parts of acts in contravention of the provisions of this 

 act are hereby repealed, and all appointments made uuder the provisions of said 

 acts are hereby annulled. 



Sec 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication 

 in the Iowa State Register and Iowa Homestead, newspapers published at Des 

 Moines. 



B. F. GUE, 

 President of the Senate. 

 ED WRIGHT, 

 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 



Approved, March 30th, 1866. 



WM. M. STONE, Governor. 



Under the authority of this act the work was immediately 

 commenced and prosecuted with the following general objects 



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