8 INTRODUCTION. 



work until the meeting of the Eleventh General Assembly, 

 when in view of its unfinished condition the re-organization of 

 the survey was ordered in April, 1866, by the following act : 



CHAPTER 73. 



AN ACT providing for the completion of the Geological Survey of the State of 

 Iowa. 



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

 purpose of completing the Geological Survey of the State, Charles A. White, of 

 Johnson county, is hereby appointed State Geologist and shall hold his office for 

 the term of two years, or until his successor is appointed. 



Sec. 2. The State Geologist shall be authorized to appoint a competent assist- 

 ant, and also a skillful analytical and experimental chemist, who shall report to the 

 State Geologist the analysis of such soils, rocks, coals, ores, and other mineral sub- 

 stances as he may submit to him for that purpose. He shall also have power to 

 employ such further assistance as he may deem necessary to prosecute promptly 

 and efficiently the field-work connected with the survey. All persons employed 

 by him shall be under his direction and subject to removal by him. All the speci- 

 mens of minerals, fossils, rocks, soils, coals, ores, or other geological or mineral 

 substances of any value or interest to either the practical or amateur geologist, and 

 any drawings or sketches of the same obtained or made by the State Geologist, as 

 well as the copyright of the reports, and all books printed therefrom shall belong 

 to the State, and no specimen, copy, draft, or part of the same, shall be given away 

 or sold, or be permitted to be carried away contrary to the provisions of this act. 

 And the State Geologist or any of his assistants or employes or any other person 

 who shall violate any provision of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 

 meanor. 



Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the State Geologist and his assistants, to carry 

 on with as much expedition as practicable the Geological and Mineralogical Sur- 

 vey of the State, including observations and examinations of the soil for agricul- 

 tural purposes. He may also include in his report such matters as pertain to 

 physical geography, and such other matters as properly and usually pertain to a 

 survey of this kind ; it being expressly required of the State Geologist and his 

 assistant, that these duties be performed in such a manner as to give to the people 

 of the State the greatest amount of practical information in relation to its re- 

 sources. 



Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the State Geologist on or before the first 

 Monday of January of each year, to prepare a report of said survey and its 

 progress, accompanied by such maps and drawings as may be necessary to illus- 

 trate the same and transmit them to the Governor who shall lay a copy of such 

 reports before the General Assembly. The State Geologist shall, as far as practi- 

 cable, use such words in his reports as are in common use, and that he shall 



