Excerpt from Final Report on the Geology and Mineralogy of the State of New Hampshire, 1844
At the session of the Legislature, June, 1839, the following law, providing for the Geological and Mineralogical Survey of the State of New Hampshire, was passed:
An Act to provide for the Geological and Mineralogical Survey of the State.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened, That the Governor of this State is hereby authorized and required, as soon as may be after the passage of this act, to appoint a State Geologist, who shall be a person of competent scientific and practical knowledge of the sciences of geology and mineralogy; and the said State Geologist shall, by and with the consent of the Governor and Council, appoint one suitable person to assist him in the discharge of his duties, who shall be a skillful analytical and experimental chemist.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the said State Geologist and his said assistant, as soon as may be practicable after their appointment, to commence and carry on, with as much expedition and despatch as may be consistent with minuteness and accuracy, a thorough geological and mineralogical survey of this State, with a view to determine the order, succession, arrangement, relative position, dip or inclination, and comparative magnitude of the several strata or geological formations within this State, and to discover and examine all beds or deposits of ore, coal, clay, marls, and such other mineral substances as may be useful or valuable, and to perform such other duties as may be necessary to make a full and complete geological and mineralogical survey of the State.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the said assistant, to make full and complete examinations, assays and analyses of all such rocks, ores, soils or other substances as may be submitted to him by the State Geologist for that purpose; and to furnish him with a detailed and complete account of the results so obtained.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the said State Geologist, on or before the first day of June in each and every year during the time necessarily occupied by said survey, to make an annual report of the progress of said survey, accompanied with such maps, drawings and specimens as may be necessary and proper to exemplify and elucidate the same, to the Secretary of the State, who shall lay such report before the Legislature.
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