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Temporary Assistants 
8. When the services of temporary assistants having special professional or 
technical qualifications are required in the Department, the Minister may, upon the 
requisition of the Director, employ such number of temporary assistants as are necessary, 
having the qualifications requisite for appointment as technical officers of the Department 
under the last preceding section. 61 V., c. 18, s. 1. 
9. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Civil Service Act, it shall not be 
necessary that any person appointed a temporary assistant under the last preceding section 
shall have passed any examination under the Civil Service Act. 
2. Any such person may be paid at the rate of more than four hundred dollars a 
year, and out of moneys voted by Parliament for the contingencies of the Department, or 
any other moneys voted by Parliament and applicable to such payment, although such 
moneys may not have been specially voted for such purpose. 61 V., c. 18, s. 2. 
Reports 
10. The Director 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 detailed reports, to be issued from time to time in 
such manner and form as the Minister directs. 
2. The Minister shall cause the said reports to be laid before Parliament, with such 
remarks, explanations and recommendations as he thinks proper. 53 V., c. 11, s. 6. 
General 
11 . The Department shall be furnished with such books, instruments and apparatus 
as are necessary for scientific reference and for the prosecution of the survey. 
2. 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 distributions or sale of the pub- 
lications, maps and other documents issued by the Department, 53 V., c. 11, s. 7. 
12 . 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. 53 V., c. 11, s. 8. 
13. 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. 53 V., c. 11, s. 9. 
14 . No person employed in or under the Department shall, — 
(а) purchase any Dominion or provincial lands except under authority of the Governor 
in Council; 
(б) 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 in relation to 
Dominion or provincial lands, until such discovery or information has been 
reported to the Minister, and his permission for such disclosure has been obtained; 
(d) make investigations or reports relating to the value of the property of individuals, 
or hold any pecuniary interest, direct or indirect, in any mine, mineral lands, 
mining works or timber limits in Canada. 53 V., c. 11, s. 10; 55-56 V., c. 16, s. 2. 
15 . 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. 53 V., c. 11, s. 11. 
