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(d) to prepare and publish such maps, plans, sections, diagrams and drawings as are 
necessary to illustrate and elucidate the reports of surveys and investigations; 
(e) to carry on ethnological and palaeontological investigations. 
8. The Department shall maintain a Museum of Geology and Natural History 
for the purpose of affording a complete and exact knowledge of the geology, mineralogy and 
mining resources of Canada. 
9. The Governor in Council may appoint a Deputy Minister, a Director of the 
Mines Branch, a Director of the Geological Survey, and such other officers and clerks as 
are required for the proper conduct of the business of the department, who shall be appointed 
and classified under schedule A of The Civil Service Act, and in accordance with and under 
the terms of section 6 of the said Act. 
10. 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 
paragraph (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 deemed expedient to indicate the scientific 
work in which they are engaged. 
11. No person shall be appointed to the department under paragraph (6) of schedule 
A of The Civil Service Act, unless he is a science graduate of either a Canadian or a 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. 
12. When the Deputy Minister reports, for reasons set forth in such report, that 
assistance of a technical or professional character is required in the department, the Gov- 
ernor in Council may, without reference to any examination, or to the age of the person, 
if the Minister concurs in such report, temporarily employ such person at such remuneration 
as is deemed expedient. 
13. Any person appointed to the department shall be appointed on probation 
and shall not receive a permanent appointment until he has served a probationary term of 
at least one year, during which probationary term he may be rejected upon the report of 
the Director of the branch in which the temporary appointment has been made; but if he 
is not rejected, the Deputy Minister may signify, in writing, to the Minister that he con- 
siders the person so appointed competent for the duties of the Department, and the appoint- 
ment may thereupon be made permanent. 
14. Persons employed in one section of a branch may be directed by the Minister 
to perform any duty in or with respect to any other section in the same branch. 
15. The Governor in Council may, on the recommendation of the Minister, assign 
the present officials of the Geological Survey to the branch in which it is deemed desirable 
that their services shall be utilized; provided that the rate of pay or tenure of office as at 
present existing shall not be impaired or altered by such assignment. 
16. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to invalidate or interfere with the 
commissions, as assistant directors, heretofore issued under orders in council to certain 
members of the scientific staff of the Geological Survey. 
17. No person employed in or under the department shall, directly or indi- 
rectly, — 
(а) purchase any Dominion or provincial lands other than for personal residential 
purposes, 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 that 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, and his per- 
mission 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, in any mine, mineral lands, mining works or timber 
limits in Canada. 
18. The Directors of the branches shall, as soon as may be after the close of 
each calendar year, make summary reports of the proceedings and work of their respective 
branches for the year, and shall also furnish final and detailed reports, to be issued from 
