"Twenty-one cents for the ordinary expenses of the government; twenty-six and one-half cents for the support of the common schools; two cents for the use of the sinking fund." So that said section when amended and re-enacted shall read as follows:

"Article one, section one. An annual tax of fifty cents upon each one hundred dollars of value of all property directed to be assessed for taxation, as hereinafter provided, shall be paid by the owner, person, or corporation assessed. The aggregate amount of tax realized by all assessments shall be for the following purposes:

"Twenty-one cents for the ordinary expenses of the government; twenty-six and one-half cents for the support of the common schools; two cents for the use of the sinking fund; one-half of one cent. for the Agricultural and Mechanical College, as now provided by law by an act, entitled "An act for the benefit of the Agricultural and Mechanical College," approved April twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty, including the necessary traveling 'expenses of all pupils of the State, entitled to free tuition in such college, and who continue students for a period of ten months, unless unavoidably prevented."

§ 2. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act, are to the extent of such conflict hereby repealed. Approved March 4, 1904.

Duties of curator.

Salary of assisteit, $2.000.

CHAPTER 19.

AN ACT providing for and authorizing the Curator of the Kentucky State Geological Department to resume the geological, topographical and agricultural survey of the State of Kentucky, and providing for topographical surveys in co-operation with the United States Geological Survey.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Com monwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That the curator of the State Geological De$ partment be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to resume the geological, topographical and agricultural survey of the State. He shall be director of said survey and it shall be his duty as such director to formulate, in accordance with the provisions of this act, the plans governing the operations of the survey; to regulate and supervise the work in field and office; to determine the character, order and time of publication of the reports of the survey, and to perform such geological and other work as may be necessary for the proper and successful conduct of the survey. And it is hereby expressly provided that said curator shall not receive any compensation, directly or indirectly, for directing the survey other than, or in excess of, what he now receives as curator. But he shall be allowed and paid his necessary field and traveling expenses when absent from his office on business connected with the survey. The bond now required of, and given by, the Curator shall also apply in his relation as director of the survey.

§ 2. The director of the survey is hereby authorized to appoint, subject to approval by the Governor, a suitable person to be principal assistant to aid in carrying out the provisions of this act. Said principal assistant shall receive an annual salary not to exceed

two thousand

dollars, the definite

of which shall be fixed by the 1

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amount

Governor,

allowed and The director of

payable monthly, and shall be
paid his necessary field expenses.
the survey shall also appoint, upon approval by the
Governor, such other assistants and employes as may
be necessary, for such times as their services may be
required. Their compensation shall be such
as may be fixed by the Governor, upon
recommendation of the director, but it shall
in no case exceed
five dollars per day for
each day employed in the work of the survey, and they
shall be allowed and paid their necessary field ex-
penses: Provided, however, That whenever it may be
deemed necessary for the best interests of the State to
temporarily employ the services of specialists to study
and report upon particular subjects or mineral deposits,
for which they may be especially fitted, the director of
the survey may, with the approval of the Governor,
engage the services of such expert persons, and their
compensation shall be such as may be fixed by the Gov-
ernor upon the recommendation of the director; but
it shall not exceed ten dollars per day for each day actu
ally employed exclusive of the necessary field expenses,
which shall be allowed and paid them: And provided
further, That the director may enter into co-operative
arrangements for geologic and hydrographic work with
the United States Geological Survey in such instances
as it may be of advantage to the State to do so.

ized and verified.

3. All accounts for compensation and expenses Accounts, itemshall 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 the sums set forth as expenditures were paid; and they shall, after receiv ing the endorsement of the director of the survey, then

Librarian to supply stationery.

Reports of di

rector.

be presented to the Governor for his approval, and the Governor having approved them, shall thereupon direct the Auditor of Public Accounts to draw his warrant on the Treasurer for 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 and approval.

§ 4. It shall be the duty of the State Librarian to supply the office of the geological survey with all necessary stationery for the use of said survey, as other public offices are supplied, upon the requisition of the director of the survey approved by the Governor.

§ 5. It shall be the duty of the director of the sur vey and his assistants to examine, study and report upon the economic geology of the State especially, giving particular attention to such mineral resources as coal, iron, lead, zine, barite, fluorite, clays, shales, building stones, asphalt rock, road and paving materials, salt, cement materials, natural fertilizers, petroleum, natural gas, pigment earths, abrasives, marbles, lithographic stones, and other minerals; determining their location and extent, which shall be shown on appropriate diagrams and maps, their relations to transportation routes, actual and possible, and their chemical and physical qualities to such extent as may be necessary in each case; and such investigations shall be conducted along such lines as will prove of practical value in ascertaining and exhibiting the fitness for commercial uses of the various substances reported upon, and shall include such standard and practical tests as are neces

sary and usual in determining the commercial values of the various materials under investigation. The occur rence of mineral springs shall also be noted and the waters analyzed when necessary, and the water powers of the State shall be investigated. The soils of the State shall also be studied, with reference to their fitness for various classes of crops, with a view to deter mine the proper fertilizers for impoverished ground, and such results as are appropriate shall be embodied in a soil map. The character and distribution of the timbers of the State shall also be determined.

§ 6. In furtherance of the object sought to be at Kinds of reports. tained by this act, and in order that the results of the survey may be presented in most convenient form, the reports of the survey shall be divided into three classes, namely: (1) Subject reports, (2) county reports, (3) general or index report. (1) The subject reports shall consist of a series of special economic reports issued as bulletins, each report dealing with some particular mineral occurrence or particular subject, such as enumer ated in section 5, and treating it in an exhaustive way with reference to its occurrence throughout the State as a whole but in cases where the occurrence of any one minera! is limited in amount or extent, or where two or more mineral occurrences may more appropriately be treated together, then a bulletin may be issued including more than one subject. To carry out the provisions of this section, therefore, there shall be issued a special report on the coals of the State, which may be divided into two parts, one on the coals of the eastern field and one of those of the western field; a similar report on the clays, shales and cement materials of the State; one on the building stones and marbles; one on the lead and zinc ores and the barite and fluorite deposits; one on