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detailed reports, to be issued from time to time in such manner and form as the Minis- 
ter directs; and the Minister shall cause the same to be laid before Parliament, with such 
remarks, explanations and recommendations as he thinks proper. 
7. The Department shall be furnished with such books, instruments and appar- 
atus as are necessary for scientific reference and for the prosecution of the survey; and the 
Governor in Council may, from time to time, cause the enlargement of the museum, and 
the distribution of duplicate specimens to scientific, literary and educational institutions 
in Canada and other countries, and also the distribution or sale of the publications, maps 
and other documents issued by the Department. 
8. The Minister may, for the purpose of obtaining a basis for the representation 
of the geological features of any part of Canada, cause such measurements and observations 
and physiographic, exploratory and reconnaissance surveys to be made as may be necessary 
for or in connection with the preparation of geological maps, sketches, plans, sections or 
diagrams. 
9. Persons employed in one section of the Department may be directed by the 
Minister to perform any duty in or with respect to any other section. 
10. No person employed in or under the Department shall— 
(a) Purchase any Dominion or Provincial lands except under authority of the Governor 
in Council; 
( b ) Locate military or bounty land warrants, or land scrip, or act as agent of any other 
person in such behalf; 
(c) Disclose to any person, except his superior officer, any discovery made by him or by 
any other officer of the Department, or any other information in his possession in 
relation to matters under the control of the Department or to Dominion or Provincial 
lands, until such discovery or information has been reported to the Minister of the 
Interior, and his permission for such disclosure has been obtained; 
( d ) Make investigations or reports relating to the value of the property of individuals, 
nor hold any pecuniary interest, direct or indirect, in any mine, mineral lands, 
mining works or timber limits in Canada. 
11. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to invalidate or interfere with the com- 
missions, as assistant directors, heretofore issued under Orders in Council to certain mem- 
bers of the scientific staff. 
12. This Act shall be substituted for chapter twenty-three of the Revised Statutes, 
respecting the Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada, which is hereby repealed. 
13. The foregoing provisions of this Act shall come into force on the first day of 
July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety. 
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An Act respecting the Department of the Geological Survey 
FROM 
REVISED STATUTES OF CANADA 
1906 
VOL. II 
Short Title 
2. This Act may be cited as the Geological Survey Act. 
Interpretation 
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, — 
(a) * ‘Department” means the Department of the Geological Survey hereby consti- 
tuted; 
(i b ) “Minister" means the minister named, as hereinafter provided, to preside over 
the Department of the Geological Survey; 
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