6 i REPORT 
Laws of Ohio, 1889, Vol. 86, p. 262. 
(Senate Bill 409.) 
AN ACT 
To provide for the extension of the Geological Survey of the State. 
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio,. 
That the governor is hereby authorized to appoint a state geologist, whose duty 
it shall be to continue and extend the investigations already made into the geo- 
logical structure and resources of the state. Said state geologist shall be appointed 
for a term of three years, but he may be removed for cause at any time, and a 
successor appointed in his stead; and the governor is authorized to fill any 
vacancy which may occur from any cause, at any time. The compensation of 
said state geologist shall be at the rate of two hundred dollars per month, for 
the time actually employed; and said geologist shall have power to employ such. 
assistants as he may need; but in no event shall the salary of the geologist, pay 
to assistants, and expense of the department, exceed the amount of the expend- 
iture authorized by the general assembly. 
Section 2. It shall be the duty of said geologist to study, and determine as. 
nearly as possible, the number and extent of the various formations of the state; 
to represent the same, from time to time, upon properly constructed maps and 
diagrams; to study the modes of occurrence and the distribution of the useful 
minerals and products of these formations; to determine the chemical composi- 
tion and structure of the same; to investigate the soils and water supply of the 
state; and to give attention to the discoveries of coal, building stone, natural 
cement, petroleum, gas and other natural substances of use and value to the 
state. He may also collect and describe the fossils of the various geological 
formations of the state; but no expenditure shall be incurred under this head 
that is not expressly ordered and provided for by the general assembly. 
Section 3. The said geologist shall make, on or before the first day in 
February of each year, a report to the governor, covering the work of the pre- 
ceding year, and the report shall be transmitted to the general assembly, to be 
printed in the same manner as other public documents, or as shall be otherwise 
ordered. 
Section 4. The salaries of the state geologist, and the assistants employed 
by him, together with the traveling and incidental expenses, shall be paid monthly, 
on presentation of properly itemized vouchers, signed by the governor, out of 
the state treasury, from the appropriation made for such purpose. 
Section 5. There is hereby appropriated from the general revenue fund the 
sum of one thousand dollars annually, for the purpose above named. 
Section 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its. 
passage. 
NOAH H. ALBAUGH, 
Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. 
: AMEN AOIDONRIE, 12, IDAN/IS, 
Passed April 12;.1889. President pro tem. of the Senate. 
From the terms of the law, it was evidently intended to provide for | 
the creation of a bureau of geology to which only a portion of the time of — 
the State Geologist should be applied, as the annual appropriation made 
was much too small to provide the salary of a State Geologist continuously, 
