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53 VICTORIA 
CHAP. II 
An Act respecting the Department of the Geological Survey 
(Assented to 16th May , 1890.) 
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Com- 
mons of Canada, enacts as follows: — 
1. In this Act the expression “Department” means the Department of the Geo- 
logical Survey hereby constituted. 
2. There shall be a Department of the Civil Service which shall be called “The 
Geological Survey,” over which the Minister of the Interior shall preside; and the said 
Minister shall have the management and control of the Department. 
3. The Governor in Council may appoint an officer who shall be the Deputy Head 
and Director of the Department and such other officers, clerks and servants as are required 
for the proper conduct of the business of the Department, all of whom shall hold office 
during pleasure, and shall be appointed and classified under Schedule A of “The Civil 
Service Act,” and in accordance with and under the terms of section six of the said Act. 
2. Such officers of the Department as are continuously engaged in the prosecution 
of original scientific work or investigation shall be classified as technical officers, under 
class (6) of Schedule A of “The Civil Service Act,” and the Governor in Council may 
cause to be prepared a list of such officers of the Department as are considered to be entitled 
to be thus classified with any designations that may be deemed expedient to indicate the 
scientific work in which they may be engaged. 
4. No person shall, after the passing of this Act, be appointed to this Department 
under class ( b ) of Schedule A of “The Civil Service Act,” unless — 
(a) He is a science graduate of either a Canadian or foreign University or of the Mining 
School of London or the Ecole des Mines of Paris or of some other recognized science 
school of standing equal to that of the said universities and schools, or a graduate of 
the Royal Military College, and in each case only after having served a probation of 
not less than two years in the scientific work of the Department; or unless — 
(b) He has served a probation of not less than five years in the scientific work of the 
Department; or unless — - 
(c) He has had experience for the same number of years in similar work, official or 
otherwise, elsewhere. 
5. The duties, objects and purposes of the Department shall be: — 
(a) To make a full and scientific examination and survey of the geological structure, 
mineralogy, mines and mining resources of Canada and of its fauna and flora; 
(b) To maintain a museum of geological and natural history and to collect^ classify and 
arrange for exhibition in the museum of the Department such specimens as are 
necessary to afford a complete and exact knowledge of the geology, mineralogy and 
mining resources of Canada; to collect, study and report on the fauna and flora of 
Canada; to carry on chemical and palaeontological investigations, and to make such 
other researches as will best tend to ensure the carrying into effect the objects and 
purposes of this Act; 
(c) To prepare and publish such maps, plans, sections, diagrams and drawings as are 
necessary to illustrate and elucidate the reports of surveys and investigations; 
(d) To collect and to publish, as soon as may be after the close of the calendar year, 
full statistics of the mineral production and of the mining and metallurgical industry 
of Canada; to study the facts relating to water supply, both for irrigation and for 
domestic purposes, and to collect and preserve all available records of artesian or 
other wells, and of mines and mining works in Canada. 
6. The Deputy Head and Director of the Department shall, as soon as may be 
after the close of each calendar year, make a summary report, to the Minister, of the 
proceedings and work of the Department for the year, and shall also furnish final and 
