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less the doctor sees fit to make him a further compensation from his 
own pocket ; as during that time he did not consider himself employed 
by the State, although he was actually in the State's service. But dur- 
ing the 620 days service for which he makes this claim, he consider- 
ed himself actually in the employ of the State, and expected to have 
been paid for his labor long since by the State. The reason why the 
undersigned has not made this claim against the State on an earlier 
day, is because Dr. Emmons represented to him that his claim for 
services, together with others, if made when he proposed to make it, 
would tend to embarrass the further prosecution and completion of 
the work, and he therefore preferred to ask the Legislature for as lit- 
tle money as possible, until the work should be completed. 
The undersigned thinks it is proper to state here (inasmuch as Dr. 
Emmons has thought proper to represent that he was under his in- 
structions while employed even at first by him upon this work) that 
when he first commenced upon the work he had been through a regular 
and thorough course of experimental chemistry ; but finding it incon- 
venient to make the progress he desired to make in the department of 
the work upon which he was engaged, and to prepare himself the bet- 
ter to prosecute the same, he went through a regular course of prac- 
tical analytic chemistry^ under the instructions of a competent teacher, 
(but not under Dr. Emmons' instruction.) This course was taken very 
soon after the undersigned commenced upon the work, and at his own 
cost and expense, and during the 300 days that Dr. Emmons says he 
worked for the State, without incurring any expense to the State. 
And the undersigned further states that during all the time that he 
was employed upon the said work, he acted wholly upon his own 
knowledge of the science pertaining to the branch of the work he had 
in charge and was prosecuting ; and it is illiberal and oppressive for 
Dr. Emmons to make any pretensions or representations to the con- 
trary. 
During the 620 days that the undersigned labored for the State 
and for which he makes this claim, he performed among others the 
following important items of labor : (See vol 2nd, Geological Survey 
Analysis marked with Dr. Salisbury's initials.) 
The number of analyses is, 
Percentages of water, dry matter and ash, 
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