•'■*<'(> The American Geologist. Xov.Mni.er, iss-i 
l)ri\;itc iiitt'i'csts in tlu' lands or mineral wi'alUi of Uu' rcjiiou un- 
der snrvey. an<l shall execute no surveys or examinations for 
private parties or corporations; and the ( Jeoh)gical and (Jeographi- 
cal survey of the Territories, and the ( Jeoloiiical and (Jeographi- 
(':d survey of tlu> Rocky mountain ri'iiion. under the Department 
of the Interior, and the ( Jeouraiiliical surveys west of the lOOth 
meridian, under the War Department, are hereby discontinued, 
to take etiect on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred 
and seventy-nine, and all collections of rocks, minerals, soils, 
fossils and objects of natural history, archeology and ethnology, 
made by the Coast and Interior survey, the Geological survey, or 
by any other parties for the (iovennnent of the tinited States. 
when no longer needed for investigations in progress, shall be 
deposited in the national museum. 
'•For the expenses of the (ieological survey, and the classifica- 
tion of the public lands and examination of the geological struc- 
ture; mineral resources and products of the national domain, to be 
expended under the direction of tlu' Secretary of the Interior, one 
hundred thousand dollars. 
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••The pul»lications of the (Geological survey shall consist of the 
annual report of operations, geological and economic )naps illus- 
trating the resources and classification of the lands and reports 
upon general and economic geology and paleontology. The an- 
nual report of operations of the (Ieological survey shall accom- 
pany the annual report of the Secretary of the Interior; all special 
memoirs and reports of said snrvey shall be issued in uniform 
([uarto series if deemed necessary by the director, but otherwise 
in ordinary octavos. Three thousand copies of each shall l>e 
published for scientific exchanges and for sale at the price of 
pul)lication; and all literary and cartographic materials received 
in exchange shall be the property of the United States, and form 
a part of the library of the organization; and the money resulting 
from the sale of such pu1)lications shall be covered into the 
treasury of the United States, under the direction of the Secre- 
tary of the Interior. ' 
Mr. Clarence King, the first director, immediately took steps 
to extend the operations of the survey over the states as well as 
the territories. This was opposed strenuously, and failed in Con- 
gress on (jne or two occasions. But by changing the phraseology de- 
