Duties of Curator of Geological Department.

Director

may appoint assistants.

Payment of expenses provided for.

for continuation of topographical surveys in co-operation with the United States Geological Survey.

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

§ 1. That the Curator of the State Geological Department be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to continue the geological, topographical and agricultural survey of the State, which was resumed under provisions set forth in Chapter nineteen, acts of the General Assembly of nineteen hundred and four. It shall be his duty as director of said survey to formulate the plans governing the operations of the survey; to regulate and supervise the work in field and office; to determine the character and order of publication of the reports of the survey, and to perform such geological and other work as may be necessary for the successful conduct of the survey. For his extra services rendered as director of the survey he shall be allowed and paid twenty-five dollars per month, and shall be allowed and paid his necessary field and traveling expenses when absent from his office on business connected with the survey.

$ 2. The director of the survey is hereby authorized to appoint such assistants and employes as may be necessary for such times as their services may be required. Their compensation shall be such as may be approved by the Governor when recommended by the director, and they shall be allowed and paid their necessary field and traveling expenses. The director is authorized to enter into co-operative arrangements for geological and hydrographical work with the United States Geological survey in such instances as it may be of advantage to the State to do so.

§ 3. All accounts for expenses presented by members of the Survey shall be itemized and certified to on oath by the person rendering the same, and shall be accompanied by vouchers showing to whom and for

what sums set forth as expenditures were paid; and they shall, after receiving the approval of the director of the Survey, then be presented to the Governor for his approval, and the Governor, having approved them, shall thereupon transmit them to the Auditor of Public Accounts, who shall draw his warrant on the Treasurer for payment of the same. And the director shall keep an itemized account of all expenditures of whatsoever kind, including all salaries and other items of compensation, under appropriate headings, in a book or books, especially provided for such purpose; and at the end of each quarter of the year he shall submit his accounts so kept to a supervisory board, consisting of the Governor, Secretary of State and Auditor, for their inspection, said accounts having first been checked with the Auditor's books.

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Librarian to

§ 4. It shall be the duty of the State Librarian to supply the office of the Geological Survey with all supply stationnecessary stationery for use of said Survey, as other public offices are supplied, upon the requisition of the director of the survey.

Duties of

assistants.

§ 5. It shall be the duty of the director of the Director and Survey and his assistants to examine and report upon the economic geology of the State especially, as specified in and in accordance with section five of Chapter nineteen, Acts of the General Assembly of nineteen hundred and four, said investigations to be conducted along such lines as will prove of practical value in ascertaining and exhibiting the fitness for commercial and economic uses of the various substances reported upon, and to include such standard and practical tests as are necessary and usual in determining the commercial values of the various materials under investigation; and in furtherance of such practical work, the director, should he deem it advisable, is authorized to purchase or lease a drilling machine for use in prospecting regions where the existence or continuation of coals, ores or other useful substances beneath the surface may not be readily determined in any other

Especial attention to study of soils.

way, or to make such other arrangements for borings as may appear most feasible and economical. The underground and surface waters of the State shall be investigated, and the director is authorized should he deem it expedient, to co-operate with the State Forestry Commission in the study of the timbers of the State. Especial attention shall be given to the study of the soils of the State, with reference to their conservation and their fitness for various classes of crops, with a view to determine the proper fertilizers for impoverished or otherwise defective lands, and such results as are appropriate shall be embodied in a soil map; and to the end that the soil investigations may be most effectively carried on, the director is is authorized to to continue the agreement with the director of the State Agricultural Experiment Station, entered into under authority of Chapter forty-nine of the Acts of the General Assembly of nineteen hundred and six, for co-operation and assistance in the work. An investigation of road materials shall also be carried on, and such tests be made as come within the means of the Survey, with a view to determinging the availability of materials in the various counties of the State for road building, and the best methods of preparing them for local application, and the results shall be embodied in a special bulletin; and the director is authorized to enter into an agreement with such bureau of the Federal Government as may be proper of mines, etc. for co-operation in this work. As a contribution tɔward a better knowledge of the requirements for the safe working of the mines of the State, the technological work of the Survey shall include an investigation of mines, gases and coal dusts and of such other matters as are appropriate, to such extent as the means of the Survey may permit.

Investigation

Reports, bulletins and maps.

$ 6. The reports of the Survey shall consist of subject reports, county reports, miscellaneous bulletins, and a general or index report, accompanied by all dia

Distribution

grams, maps and illustrations necessary to render them full and complete; and the Commissioners of Public Printing shall cause each report and map to be promptly printed, after it shall have been submitted to the Governor, the cost thereof to be paid out of the general expenditure fund as in the case of other official reports. The minimum number of copies of each report and map printed shall not be less than one thousand, and the said Commissioners shall determine the number of copies, if any, which shall be printed in excess of the minimum number, also the grade of paper to be used and the kind of binding, each of which shall be suitable and appropriate for such character of official publications. Each member and officer of the General Assembly shall be entitled to one copy of each report and map of maps, etc. issued during his term; an adequate number shall be distributed to the several State departments at the Capitol; two hundred and fifty copies shall be deposited with the State Librarian for sale at cost of printing, and all money received from sales shall be turned into the Treasury to the credit of the general expenditure fund; and the remainder shall be for distribution in such manner by the director of the Survey as will in his judgment best serve to advertise the resources and advance the development of the State. All reports shall be stereotyped, and the Commissioners of Public Printing may order new editions printed of any report or map issued by the Survey whenever in their judgment the public demand for such report or map shall justify such reprinting.

§ 7. The director of the Survey is hereby authorized to enter into agreement with the director of the United States Geological Survey for the continuation of co-operative topographical surveys of this State: Provided, That the United States Geological Survey shall expend in each case of surveying

Report biennially to

agreed upon an amount equal to that allotted for such work by the director of the Kentucky Survey: And provided further, That such agreement may be made as will in all things prove advantageous to this State, and receive the approval of the Governor. § 8. The director of the Survey shall biennially Governor and 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 proper heads, for what purposes said expenditures were made.

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interested in

buying or selling lands.

§ 9. No official or employe of the Survey shall be cials not to be interested in any speculation in mineral lands in this State, nor 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 to other than the owner of the land upon which such discoveries may be made except upon the written authority of the owner, and no such information shall be withheld from any owner. Violations of the provisions of this section by any person employed on the Survey shall be sufficient cause for his removal by the Governor, and no one who has been removed for such cause shall again be employed on the Survey.

Annual appropriation of $15,000.00.

$10. For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act, there is hereby appropriated the sum of fifteen thousand dollars annually for the geological, chemical, technological, soil, and other investigations authorized by this act, including all salaries and field expenses, clerical assistance, laboratory and field equipments and supplies, freight charges, maintenance of the State Museum, and all necessary miscellaneous items; and the further sum of ten thousand dollars annually for topographical surveys in cooperation with the United States Geological Survey, subject to the provisions of section seven of this act: