The Geological Survey of California: An Address Delivered Before the Legislature of California ... March 12th, 1861 by J.D. Whitney : to which is Appended a Copy of the Act Authorizing the SurveyTowne & Bacon, printers, 1861 - 50 Seiten |
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Seite 49 - ... proper maps and diagrams thereof with a full and scientific description of its rocks, fossils, soils, and minerals, and of its botanical and geological productions, together with specimens of the same, which specimens shall be properly labelled and deposited in such place as shall be hereafter provided for that purpose by the legislature.
Seite 49 - Survey during the preceding year shall be set forth, and its more important practical results made public. He shall also furnish such estimates as he shall deem proper of the amount of appropriation which shall be required for the continuance of the Survey. His report shall also embrace the amount of expenses incurred up to that period. SECTION THREE. On the completion of the Survey, the State Geologist shall prepare and present to the Governor a full and comprehensive Report, embodying the results...
Seite 49 - AN ACT TO CREATE THE OFFICE OF STATE GEOLOGIST, AND TO DEFINE THE DUTIES THEREOF. The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : SECTION ONE. JD WHITNEY is hereby appointed State Geologist, whose duty it shall be, with the aid of such assistants as he may appoint, to make an accurate and complete geological survey of the State, and to furnish in his report of the same proper maps and diagrams thereof, with a full and scientific description of its...
Seite 49 - Sec. 4. Whenever two or more volumes of the geological survey shall be published, the Governor and Secretary of State may cause such books to be sold, at such prices as they may deem expedient, and any moneys derived from such sales shall be applied to the same purposes as the appropriation made by the second section of this act.
Seite 49 - ... 549. He must, as near as may be at the beginning of each session of the legislature, present to the governor, who must lay the same before the legislature, a report of progress in which the operations of the geological survey during the interval since his last preceding report must be set forth and its most important results made public.
Seite 50 - Geologist, shall l>e audited by the State Controller and paid out of the amount herein appropriated, or out of such appropriations as shall be hereafter made for that purpose; provided that the compensation herein allowed shall be paid only from the time they slmll enter iilK>n the performance of their duties.
Seite 50 - WHITNEY shall notify the Governor of his acceptance of the appointment herein made, the Governor shall cause to be issued to said Whitney his commission under the seal of State ; and if the said WHITNEY shall decline to serve as said Geologist, or die, or become unable to prosecute said Survey, the Governor of this State is hereby authorized to appoint some suitable person to prosecute said Survey. SECTION EIGHT. The sum of twenty thousand dollars is hereby set apart out of any moneys in the State...
Seite 44 - I would say that, although for twenty years constantly engaged in the examination of mines and mining property, I have never been the owner of a share of mining stock or a foot of mining ground, or, either directly or indirectly, pecuniarily interested in any enterprise or undertaking in any way connected with the mining interest. If I were, I should consider myself as unfitted for the position I now occupy.
Seite 49 - Geologist shall, as near as may be, at the beginning of each session of the Legislature, present to the Governor, who shall lay the same before the Legislature, a report of progress, in which the operations of the geological survey during the preceding year shall be set forth, and its more important practical results made public. He shall also furnish such estimates as he shall deem proper of the amount of appropriation which shall be required for the continuance of the survey.
Seite 44 - To pronounce an unbiased opinion on the value of a mineral deposit, calmly to weigh all the conditions necessary to its successful development, to keep cool among the brilliant visions which any new revelation of the treasures which mother earth keeps hidden within her...