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CHAPTER LXYII 
An Act respecting the Geological Survey of Canada 
(Assented, to 22nd May , 1868.) 
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Com- 
mons of Canada, enacts as follows: 
I. Out of any unappropriated moneys forming part of the Consolidated Revenue 
Fund of Canada, the sum of thirty thousand dollars shall be annually applied for the term 
of five years from the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, to 
defray the expenses of the Geological Survey of Canada, during the said term; which sum 
shall be paid at such times and in such manner as the Governor in Council may direct, 
subject to the provisions hereinafter made; and any balance remaining unexpended out 
of the sum appropriated for any one year, may be applied and expended in the next or any 
subsequent year, in addition to the sum appropriated for such next or subsequent year. 
II. The Governor may employ a suitable number of competent persons to make, 
continue and complete the Geological Survey of Canada, and to furnish a full and scientific 
description of its rocks, soils and minerals, which shall be accompanied with proper maps, 
diagrams and drawings and a collection of specimens to illustrate the same, and may 
direct the publication of such maps and drawings as he may deem necessary for that pur- 
pose, and the deposit thereof in the Geological Museum, as a collection for the whole 
Dominion of Canada, and which shall be open at all reasonable hours to the public, and 
shall be furnished with such books and instruments as may be necessary for the illustration 
of the science and the prosecution of the Survey, and may from time to time order the 
distribution of the publications relative to the Survey and of duplicate specimens, to 
scientific institutions in Canada and other countries. 
III. For the purpose of obtaining an accurate basis from which the geological and 
topographical features of the country may be ascertained, and for the purpose of connecting 
together local and partial Surveys, the Director of the Geological Survey shall cause 
permanent marks in some public buildings, or other marks of a durable description, to be 
made at several convenient stations in Canada, and shall fix accurately the latitude and 
longitude and the relative levels thereof as points of reference. 
IV. All Railway and Canal Companies over which the Parliament of Canada has 
jurisdiction, shall, if incorporated after the passing of this Act, furnish to the Geological 
Survey, without charge, certified copies of all plans and sections of their Surveys; and all 
such Companies theretofore incorporated shall furnish such plans and sections upon the 
demand of the Director of the Geological Survey and at the cost of the same. 
V. The Director of the Geological Survey shall make and transmit yearly to the 
Governor, on or before the first day of May, a report shewing generally the progress made 
in the Survey. 
VI. An account of the moneys expended under the authority of this Act, shall be 
laid yearly before the House of Commons, during the first fifteen daj's of each session of 
Parliament. 
Statutes of Canada, First Parliament. 31st Viet., Part 2, 1868. 
35 VICTORIA— 1872 
CAP. XXII 
An Act to make provision for the continuation and extension 
of the Geological Survey of Canada, and for the main- 
tenance of the Geological Museum. 
(Assented to lljh June, 1872.) 
Whereas the period for which an appropriation is made by the Act passed in the 
thirty-first year of Her Majesty’s Reign, Chapter sixty-seven, for the Geological Survey of 
Canada, will expire on the thirtieth day of June, in the present year, one thousand eight 
hundred and seventy-two, and it is expedient to make such appropriation for a further 
