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the first importance to carry the researches in this respect to the 
utmost extent. The beneficial objects of the survey would not be 
fully answered by the mere discovery of the diflferent kinds of ores 
and minerals existing within our territory. It was necessary that 
their qualities and ingredients should be accurately ascertained by 
a minute and scientific analysis. In relation to agricultural im- 
provements, it was also important that more should be done than 
to collect specimens of our various soils. In directing the execu- 
tion of the work, I thought it incumbent on me to provide for a full 
and accurate chemical analysis of these soils. To accomplish these 
objects in the best manner, I deemed it necessary to appoint a mi- 
neralogist, and assign to him the duty of examining the localities 
of the several ores found in this State, and of analyzing them, to- 
gether with the soils and mineral waters of the State. Dr. Lewis 
C. Beck was selected for this purpose. I have more particularly 
called your attention to this arrangement, and succinctly alluded 
to some of the inducements for making it, because the appointment 
of a person to execute the mineralogical and chemical department 
of the survey was not suggested in the report of the Secretary of 
State. The propriety of this arrangement will, I think, be ren- 
dered more manifest by an examination of the report of the mine- 
ralogist now transmitted to the Legislature, together with those 
of the other persons engaged in the survey. Some expenses to a 
small amount attending the process of conducting these analyses, 
I have considered it proper to allow, and though I declined to ap- 
point an assistant for the mineralogist in his explorations, I have 
paid some charges for the travelling expenses of one whom he en- 
gaged to accompany him. 
It will be recollected thao^the plan submitted to the Legislature 
divided the State into iour geological districts, and proposed to as- 
sign to each two geologists and a draughtsman. The annual com- 
pensation suggested was $1,500 for each geologist, and 8800 for the 
draughtsman. In this respect I have modified this plan, and there- 
by made considerable reduction in the expense, without, as I hope, 
diminishing the chance of securing a proper survey of the State. 
I have appointed only one geologist and an assistant for a district. 
I have stipulated to allow, and for the services performed have al- 
lowed, to the geologist a compensation at the. rate of $1,500 per 
annum, and to the assistant $800. It was believed that a draughts- 
man for each district would not be required, or rather that the ser- 
