petroleum and natural gas; one on asphalt rock and road materials, and so on, appropriate bulletins being issued with reference to the various subjects of investigation coming within the province of the survey, the results of the soil survey being published in the form of an agricultural bulletin. Said reports shall be accompanied by all diagrams and illustrations necessary to render them full and complete. In order that the results of the survey may be given to the public as expeditiously as possible, the bulletins herein provided for shall be the form of publications to be issued first, and in cases of urgency, the director may issue preliminary parts of a bulletin, covering the special work so far as it has progressed, in advance of the completion of the entire bulletin. (2) The county reports shall consist of full and complete reports on the mineral, agricultural and other natural resources of each county, accompanied by maps and diagrams showing the geological formations of the county, with their dips and flexures, and such items of topography as the resources of the survey will permit. (3) The general report shall relate to the distribution of the geological formations and mineral resources of the State as a whole, its purpose being to present a general view of the natural resources of the State, and to serve as an index to the occurrences of the mineral deposits and distribution of timbers by citations to the special bulletins and county reports wherein extended descriptions of the same may be

found.

§ 7. The reports prescribed in the foregoing section shall be prepared as rapidly as the means provided for the prosecution of the survey will permit, and as soon as each report is ready for publication it shall be submitted to the Governor for his approval, and when approved it shall be submitted to the Commissioner of

Public Printing of the State, who shall provide for the printing of it, the cost thereof to be paid out of the general expenditure fund as in the case of other official reports; and said printing commissioner shall determine the number of copies, if any, which shall be printed in excess of the minimum number prescribed in this section, and the grade of paper to be used, the kind of binding, and other details incident to its proper publication. The minimum number of copies of each report printed shall not be less than 1,000, of which 300 copies shall be distributed among members of the General Assembly and public offices at the Capital, and 200 copies placed at the disposal of the director of the survey, to be exchanged for publications of other surveys and of scientic institutions and technical journals, and to be distributed among public libraries and men of science, and among members of the survey on the basis of one copy to each member; and the remainder shall be sold at a price fifteen per cent, above the cost of publication, and all moneys received from sales shall be turned into the State Treasury to the credit of the general revenue. All reports of the survey shall be stereotyped, and upon recommendation of the Governor the printing commissioners may order new editions printed of any report of map provided for herein, or of any report or map issued by the geological survey in former years, in event editions of the same should be exhausted, whenever in the judgment of said officials the public demand for such report or map justifies such reprinting; but all copies of reprinted reports and maps shall be sold at a price fifteen per cent. above cost of reprinting, and all moneys received from sales shall be turned into the Treasury to the credit of the general revenue. And the printing commissioners are also authorized to have printed, in the same manner and on the same terms

Co-operation with director of U. S. geological survey.

Annually to report expenditures.

Officials and employees prohibited.

specified in this section for the printing of new reports, any manuscript reports or maps which were prepared by the geological survey that may be in the archives of the survey, the same to first receive the approval of the Governor.

§ 8. The director of the survey is hereby authorized to enter into agreement with the Director of the United States Geological Survey for co-operative topographical surveys in this State: Provided, That the United States Geological Survey shall expend in each case of surveying agreed upon an amount equal to that allotted for such work by the Director of the Kentucky Survey under authority of this act: And provided further, That such an agreement may be made as will in all things prove advantageous to this State, and receive the approval of the Governor.

$ 9. The director of the survey shall annually make report to the Governor, to be transmitted to the General Assembly, showing the progress made by the survey, and giving account of the expenditures that have been made, setting forth in said account, under appropriate heads, for what purposes such expenditures were made. 3 10. No employe or official of the survey shall be interested in any speculation in mineral lands in this State; neither shall they engage in the buying or selling of such lands, nor shall any one of them give out any private information concerning discoveries they may make in the course of their investigations, except that they shall not withhold information from the actual owner of the land upon which such discoveries may be made; and they shall not engage for personal compensation in making private reports on mineral properties for private persons or for corporations: Privided however, That they may, within the discretion of the director and upon the approval of the Governor, publish in

public journals, or in the publications of scientific societies, such matter as may appear to be of sufficient importance to the public to warrant publication in advance of the issuing of the regular reports of the survey: And provided, That they may, in official capacity, make such examinations for the owners of mineral properties which the owners thereof desire to develop, as will aid in such work of development, when the same can be done without detriment to the progress of the survey, all such examinations to be reported in the annual report of the director. Violation of the provisions of this section, on the part of any person employed on the survey, shall be sufficient cause for his removal by the Governor.

ated.

§ 11. For the purpose of carrying into effect the $15,000 appropriprovisions of this act there is hereby appropriated from any money in the State Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars annually, which shall be allotted as follows: For the geological, chemical, general, topographical, hydrographical and other investigations authorized by this act, including all salaries and field expenses, together with office expenses, clerical assistance, purchase and repairs of instruments and field equipments, repairs and maintenance of the State Museum, freight charges on specimens and other materials, and all necessary miscellaneous items, the sum of ten thousand dollars per annum; for topographic surveys, in co-operation with the United States Geological Survey, subject to the provisions of section 8, the sum of five thousand dollars per annum: Provided, That in event it should at any time prove that said co-operative work is not being conducted to the best advantage of the State, the Director of the State Geological Survey is hereby authorized to withdraw from such co-operation, when so advised by

the Governor, and any unexpended balance shall be turned back into the Treasury.

§ 12. In consideration of the widespread demand for information concerning the mineral and other nat ural resources of the State, the fact that the editions of most of the geological reports and maps that have hitherto been issued are exhausted, and the necessity for expedition in the prosecution of the work provided for by this act, an emergency is hereby declared, and this act shall take effect upon its approval by the Governor; but the foregoing appropriations shall only be for two years.

Approved March 5, 1904.

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pensation not to ex

CHAPTER 20.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act for the relief of the
Court of Appeals," approved October 5, 1900.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

1. That section one of an act, entitled "An act ced $100 per month. for the relief of the Court of Appeals," approved October 5, 1900, be stricken out and the following inserted in lieu thereof:

"That the judges of the Court of Appeals are hereby empowered to employ clerical assistance for each of said judges, and fix the compensation to be paid such assistants. Such compensation shall be paid monthly out of the treasury upon the warrant of the Auditor of Public Accounts, which shall be issued upon the certificate of the Chief Justice; and the compensation of such assistants shall not exceed for each assistant one hundred dollars a month. Such assistants shall be sub