2 
I Assembly 
The annual expense of the survey was estimated at $19,900, 
and the cost of publishing the same, with maps, cuts, etc., and 
the fitting up of a cabinet for specimens at $24,900, making the 
entire cost of the project when completed $104,000. 
In 1836, the act to provide for the geological survey of the 
State, was passed, appropriating annually, for lour years, the 
sum of twenty-six thousand dollars, to pay the expense therefor. 
In the spring of 1836, the departments of the survey were or-, 
ganised. In November of the same year the geologists met at 
Albany, for consultation, and recommended the establishment of 
a new department to which should be committed that part of 
the work which was to relate to fossil remains. It was suggest- 
ed that the, increase of expense would be comparatively trifling, 
and to diminish this the paleontologist will make all the draw- 
ings of fossil remains, and thus save an annual expense at least 
of 1 500. 
The department on paleontology was accordingly organised 
in 1837, and Mr. Conrad was appointed to that service. 
In 1840, it was found impossible to complete the survey with- 
in the four years designated by the act of 1836, and an act was 
passed authorising the Governor to continue the survey until 
the 1st of January, 1842, if it could be done without exceeding 
the original appropriation of $104,000. 
In 1842, it was ascertained that the expense of the survey 
would far exceed the appropriations therefor, and another act 
was passed, authorising the Governor to continue the survey, 
etc., until the first Tuesday in January, in such way as to secure 
the ultimate completion and publication as heretofore contem- 
plated, and twenty-six thousand dollars were appropriated to 
defray the expenses thereof. 
In May, 1843, eight volumes of the work were printed at a 
cost of $40,723.11. It was also ascertained that the whole work 
would make ten or twelve volumes. 
An act was passed this year to secure the completion and pub- 
lication of the work, as theretofore contemplated. 
