The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-05-16
CHAPTER 81.

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A STATE
GEOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC SUR
vEY, AND TO MAKE PROVISION
FOR THE PREPARATION AND PUB
LEGATION OF REPORTS AND MAPS
TO ILLUSTRATE THE NATURAL
RESOURCES OF THE STATE, To-
GETHER WITH THE NECESSARY
INVESTIGATIONS PREPARATORY
THERETO.
Section l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That there is
hereby established State Geological and
Economic Survey. which shall be under
tire direction of a commission composed
of the Governor the Comptroller, the
sity and the president of the Maryland
Agricultural College. who shall serve
without compensation. but shall be REIN
bursed for actual expenses incurred in
the performance of their official duties:
and the said commissioners shall have
general charge of the survey and shall
appoint as superintendent of the same
geologist of established reputation. and
upon his nomination such assistants and
employees as they may deem necessary;
and they shall also determine the COM
survey and may remove them at pleasure.
Section q And be It enacted, That the
survey shall have for its Objects:
a. An examination of the geological
erence to their economic products, viz:
building stones, clays, ores and other
mineral substances.
e. An examination, and classification
of the soils and study OF their adapta-
bility to particular crops.
(3.) An examination of the physical
features of the state with reference to
their practical bearing upon the occupa-
tions of the people.
a. The preparation of special geo.
logical and economic maps to illsutrate
the resources of the state.
o. The preparation of special reports,
with necessary illustrations and maps.
which shall embrace both a general and
detailed description of the geology and
natural resources of the state.
81 The consideration of such other
scientific and economic questions as, in
the Judgment of the commissioners. shall
be deemed of value to the people of the
state.
Section >. And be 1t enacted, That the
commissioners shall cause to be prepared
a report to the legislature, before each
meeting Of the same, showing the prog
with such other information as they may
deem necessary and useful, or as the legis-
lature may require.
Section 4. And be 1t enacted, That the
with proper Illustrations and maps, shall
be printed as the commissioners may d.
rect, and that the reports shall be distrib-
uted or sold by the said commissioners,
as the interest of the state and of science
demands, and all moneys obtained by the
sale of the reports shall be paid into the
state treasury.
Section s. And be 1t enacted, That all
material collected, after having served
the purposes of the survey, shall be dis
tributed by the commissioners to the edu-
cational institutions in such manner as
to be of the greatest advantage to the edu-
cational interests of the state, or, If deem
ed advisable, the whole or part of such
material shall be put on permanent ex-
hibition.
Section g. And be 1t enacted, That the
sum of ten thousand dollars annually, or
so much thereof as may be necessary. is
hereby appropriated out of any funds of
the treasury not otherwise appropriated
for the purpose of carrying out the pro-
visions of this Act.
Section 7. And be it further enacted,
That this Act shall take effect from the
date of its passage.
LLOYD LOWNDES, Governor
WILLIAM CABELL BRUCE,
President of the Senate.
SYDNEY E. MUDD,
Speaker of the House Of Delegates.
We hereby certify that the aforegoing
is correct copy of an Act of the General
Assembly of Maryland, passed January
Session, 1896.
]. ROGER McSHERRY,
Secretary of the Senate.
NJ. NJ HIGGINS,
Chief Clerk Of the House Of Delegates.