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tlie authority of another act to justify the further payment of their 
salaries." We supposed it possible that the terms of the laws under 
which we act, might justify the payments in question, but as they 
were not precisely specified, we declined making any, particularly as 
all the money appropriated was needed in forwarding the work. 
The Geologists acquiesced, with an understanding that we should re- 
commend the subject favorably to the consideration of the Legisla- 
ture. 
Claims on the State for services in the Geological Survey. 
We received sundry applications under this head, and intended 
(and so stated to the applicants) to examine and report on them; but 
on a more minute examination of the section of the law in question, 
W€ doubt whether we have a right to report on the matters involved. 
The law appears distinctly to restrict our duties to the payment of 
claims for services and expenses attending the publication of the j'fa- 
tural History of the State. We doubt wiiether the claims of Professor 
Mather, formerly one of the geologists, and of Dr. Salisbury, acting 
as an assistant to Dr. Emmons, come under this provision. We, 
however, transmit the claim of Professor Mather, marked E, and of 
Dr. Salisbury, marked F. 
The late George Endicott. 
Mr. Endicott bad, during his life time, a large and lucrative con- 
tract for engraving the plates in the early volumes of the " Natural 
History," and indeed also the later ones. It appears by the Assem- 
bly report of 1850, pages 36, 119 and 120, that he was paid a con- 
siderable sum for work not delivered, and of course on the certificate 
of one or other of the geologists. We transmit a letter from the 
brother and widow, inclosing proposals for a settlement of the account 
with the State. (G.) 
Geological Survey of Ulster^ Sullivan and Delaivare counties. 
We have been solicited to present a claim on the part of the above 
counties, founded on the assertion that their mineral resources were 
but superficially or imperfectly examined during the late survey. It 
is proposed to ask an appropriation of one thousand dollars for a fur- 
ther examination of each of the said counties, bjing a total of three 
thousand dollars. We doubt not but that such an appropriation might 
be the means of developing the existence or the frequency of many 
valuable substances, and thus both directly and indirectly increase 
