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Under this act the Governor appointed eight geologists, to each of 
whom was assigned a portion of the duties and labors embraced with- 
in the scope of the law, and they entered upon and prosecuted their 
labors during the four years mentioned in the act. 
The geologists made their annual reports to the Legislature as the 
act required, which reports were full and voluminous, and were pub- 
lished from year to year, at great expense, as other reports required 
by law to be made to the Legislature, arep ublished. Eut the geolo- 
gists not having been able to complete their survey of the State 
according to the provisions of the act of 1836, wil hin the four years con- 
templated by that act, a law was passed in 1840, which authoiized the 
Governor to continue the survey until the 1st Tuesday in January, 
1842 ; but only upon the condition that the expense of this contin- 
ued survey should not exceed the unexpended balance of the moneys 
appropriated for the survey by the act of 1836. That sum was 
twenty-six thousand dollars annually, for four years j in all, one hun- 
dred and four thousand dollars. 
Here was a plain legislative direction, that the agents of the State 
to whom the execution of the law was entrusted, should so plan this 
survey, and shape their duties, and limit their inquiries, that the labor 
and investigations assigned to them by the law, should be performed 
within the period above mentioned, and that the expense already in- 
curred, and to be incurred, should not exceed the sum so appropri- 
ated. 
Under this last mentioned act, the State geologists proceeded with 
their labors under the direction of the Governor, but as would seem 
from the sequel, without any regard to the condition imposed in the 
act of 1840 ; for so far was the survey from being completed on the 
1st Tuesday of January, 1842, that it is not yet completed, although 
a part of the number of the geologists have been employed from that 
time to this. And whether the condition of the act in respect to the 
expense was observed in the plan, and execution of the surveys, will 
appear from the subsequent history of the proceedings. The last 
mentioned act expired on the 1st Tuesday of January, 1842. 
On the 9th of April, 1842, another act was passed, which autho- 
rized the Governor to continue, until the 1st Tuesday in January 
