Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-08-10

AN ACT providing for the completion
OF the Geological Survey of the State
of Iowa.
SECTION 1. BE it enacted 6y the Gen.
crdt assembly Of tie State Of IOop, That
for the purpose of completing the
Geological Survey of the State, Charles
"A. White, of Johnson county, is hereby
appointed State Geologist, and shall
hold his Office for the term of two years,
or until his successor is appointed.
SEC. 2. The State Geologist shall be
authorized to appoint competent asss-
tant aQa also skillful analytical and
experimental Chemist, who shall report
to the State Gcologist the analysis of
such soils, rocks, Goals, ores and other
mineral substances, as he may submit
to him for that purpose. He shall also
have power to employ such further as
sistance as .he may deem necessary to
prosecute promptly and efficiently the
field work connected with the Survey.
All persons employed by him shall be
under his direction and subject to re-
moval by him. All the specimens of
minerals; fossils, rocks, soils, Goals, ores
or other geological or mineral substanc-
es of any value or interest to either the
practical or amateur geologist, and any
drawings or sketches of the same OBJ
tanned or made by said State Geologist,
as well as the copyright Of the reports
and all books printed thGrefrom, shall
belong to the State, and no specimen
copy, draft or part of the same shall be
given away or sold, or permitted to be
carried away contrary to the provisions
of this Act. And the State GeOlogist, or
any of his assistants or employees or
any other person who shall violate any
provision of this section, shall be deem
cd guilty of a misdcmeanor.
SEC. 3. 1t shall be the duty Of the
State Geologist, and his assistants to
carry on with as much expedition as
practicable the geological and mineral
Ogical survey of the State, including
observations and examinations of the
soil for agricultural purposes. He may
also include in his report such matters
as pertain to physical geography and
such other matters as properly and usu-
ally pertain to a survey of this kind; it
being especially required of the State
GeOlogist and his assistant that these
duties be performed in such manner
as to give to the people of the State the
greatest amount of practical informa-
ton in relation to its resurces. -s
SEC. +. 1t shall be the duty of the
State Gcoiogist, on or before the first
Monday of January Of each year, to pre-
pare report of said survey, and its pro-
gress, accompanied by such maps and
drawings SIS may DC necessary to illus
tratc the same, and transmit them to
the Governor, who shall lay a copy of
such reports before the General Assem-
bly,. That the Gcologist shall as far as
practicable, use such words in his re-
ports as are i'll common use and that he
shall accompany each volume of his re-
ports with u glossary. 1t shall also be
his duty to prepare, from time to time
during the progress of the survey COM
munications for publication in the
newspapers of the State, provided it
shall be done without expense to the
State, embodying. such information in
reference to the character and quality
of the soil, deposits of coal, minerals
and other valuable substances, as he
may deem of general interest and inn
portance to the public.
SEC. ). 1t shall be the duty Of the
State Geologist to cause collections to
be made of rocks, soils, fossils, GOALS,
ores, and other mineral substances, dis
covered er examined, which shall be
disposed of rs follows, to-wit: all rare
specimens of which duplicates cannot
be found and all specimens from which
descriptions or illustrations are drawn
for publication, shall be deposited in
the Cabinet of the State University. A
full series of tie best of such specimens
us more particularly exemplify the eco
homie geology of the State shall be de-
posted in the Cabinet of the State Uni
versity. A full series OF the best of such
specimens as more particularly exeal-