ing as aforesaid, which bids shall be opened in his office at twelve o'clock M. on the day appointed, in the presence of the said Superintendent and at least two of the State Board of Examiners; and the State Board of Examiners and the said Superintendent of State Printing shall constitute a Board to award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder. No bid shall be considered unless accompanied by a bond, with two or more sureties, in the sum of five thousand dollars, payable to the people of the State of California, conditioned that if the bidder receives the award of the contract he will, within thirty days, enter into bonds in the sum of ten thousand dollars, with two or more sureties, to be approved by the Governor of the State, that he will faithfully perform the conditions of his contract; provided, however, that such paper as may be required in the State printing office before the above mentioned contract goes into effect shall be furnished by the Secretary of State. If all the bids opened shall be deemed too high by said Board, they may decline them, and advertise again. If the second set of bids are considered too high, the said Board may again decline them, and authorize the Secretary of State to purchase said paper in open market. The prices paid by the Secretary of State shall in no case be higher than the lowest price at which such paper was offered to be furnished by the bids so rejected.

SEC. 10. All ruling, folding, and folding and stitching, and binding required to be executed for the State, shall be done under the supervision of said Superintendent. He shall advertise for thirty days in two daily newspapers published in the City of San Francisco, and one daily newspaper published in the City of Sacramento, specifying the character of the binding, folding, and stitching to be bid upon, for proposals to do all such folding, folding and stitching, ruling, and binding, all of which work shall be done in the City of Sacramento, and on the day appointed he shall, in the presence of the Board of Examiners, open the bids that may be received, and said Superintendent of State Printing and said Board of Examiners shall award said contract to the lowest responsible bidder or bidders therefor.

SEC. 11. The sum of twenty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any unappropriated money in the State Treasury, to be expended by the said Superintendent under the direction of the Governor, Secretary of State, and Attorney General, acting jointly, in the purchase of such printing materials and

machinery as may be necessary for the execution in the proper manner of all the State printing.

SEC. 12. The sum of twelve thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any unappropriated money in the State Treasury, to be expended by the Governor, Secretary of State, and Attorney General in the purchase of a lot and erection of a building to be used for the State Printing Office.

SEC. 13. The Superintendent of State Printing shall receive a salary of three thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly out of any money in the General Fund not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 14. The office of State Printer is hereby abolished, and all Acts or parts of Acts conflicting with this Act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 15. This Act shall take effect on the first Monday in July, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five. But nothing therein contained shall be so construed as to interfere with the office of the State Printer during the term for which the present incumbent is elected.

ARTICLE XIII.

STATE GEOLOGIST.

General duties of

SECTION 548. General duties of.

549. Report to Governor.

550. Specimens to be delivered to University.
551. Salary of Geologist.

552. Compensation of Assistants.

553. Board of Examiners to audit accounts.

554. Reports and maps to be sold, etc.

548. It is the duty of the State Geologist, with the aid of such assistants as he may appoint, 'to continue and with all reasonable diligence to complete the geological survey of this State. He must also prepare a report of the survey and superintend the publication thereof in the form of a geological, botanical, zoölogical, and physiographical history of the State, with full and scientific descriptions of its rocks, fossils, soils, minerals, mines, climates, and physical geography, together with suitable and accurate geological and topographical maps and diagrams of the same.

Governor.

549. He must, as near as may be at the beginning Report to 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.

to be

to

550. The geological and other specimens collected Specimers by the State Geological Survey must, excepting such delivered as may be required by the State Geologist to aid in University. the preparation of his report, be delivered over to the Regents of the State University, to be by them deposited in the cabinet of the same as the property of the University.

Geologist.

551. The annual salary of the State Geologist is Salary of six thousand dollars, payable monthly out of any appropriations which may be made by the Legislature for the continuation of the work of the survey.

tion of

552. His assistants receive such compensation as Compensahe may determine, payable in the same manner out of Assistants. the same Fund.

553. The accounts of the State Geologist, including salaries and all other expenses of the survey, must be audited by the Board of Examiners, and, if found correct, must be paid out of the State Treasury in such manner as may be provided by law.

554. The volumes and maps of the report must be sold upon such terms as the Governor deems to be most advantageous to the State, and any moneys derived from such sales must be applied to the completion of the unfinished publications of the survey, and the surplus, if any, must be paid into the Common School Fund of the State.

NOTE.-Stats. 1872, p. 55.

An Act to authorize the distribution of the Reports of the State Geological Survey.

[Approved February 2, 1872.]

[Enacting clause.]

SECTION 1. On the application of any Consul residing in the City of San Francisco, and representing an European Government, to the Governor of the State of California, requesting a set of the Reports of the State Geological Survey, to be deposited in some well known and established scientific or literary institution under the control of the Government of which he is the accredited representative, an order may issue from the Governor to the Secretary of State or the State Geologist, as the case may be, directing them to furnish one such set of reports only to each nation having a Consul residing in San Francisco: provided further, that the State Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be furnished, on demand on the Secretary of State and the State Geologist, with one set for the State Normal School, two sets for the State University, and two sets for the State Library.

SEC. 2. The Secretary of State or the State Geologist, on the presentation of such order, shall deliver to the party therein named such set or parts of set of the Reports of the State Geological Survey as may be designated, taking his receipt therefor. They shall annually, on the first day of September of each year, report to the Governor the number of volumes so issued, at whose request, and to what institution presented.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately.
Stats. 1872, p. 355.

An Act to continue the Geological Survey of the State of California.

[Approved March 13, 1872.]

[Enacting clause.]

SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the State Geologist to proceed and with all reasonable diligence complete the Geological Survey of this State, and the publication of the results thereof.

SEC. 2. The sum of two thousand dollars per month, payable monthly for the period of two years from and after the twenty-fifth day of March, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-two, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise

appropriated, to pay the expenses of said survey and publication, and the Controller is hereby directed to draw his warrants upon the Treasurer and in favor of the State Geologist therefor.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately.

Stats. 1872, p. 924.

An Act supplementary to an Act entitled un Act to authorize the distribution of the Reports of the State Geological Survey, approved February second, eighteen hundred and seventy-two.

[Approved April 1, 1872.]

[Enacting clause.]

SECTION 1. Of each of the volumes and maps of the State Geological Survey already published, or which may be hereafter published, one hundred copies shall be deposited at the office of the Secretary of State by the State Geologist, subject to the order of the Governor, for gratuitous distribution to the various State and Territorial Libraries, to public libraries, and to the libraries of universities, colleges, and learned societies in the United States.

SEC. 2. One hundred copies of the same may be distributed by the State Geologist to public libraries and learned institutions in foreign countries, to the officers of other geological surveys, and to persons who may have rendered special services to the Geological Survey of California.

SEC. 3. On application by the County Clerks of the respective counties to the State Geologist, one copy of each of same shall be given to each county in the State of California, to be deposited and kept with the county records, and to be accessible at all reasonable hours for inspection by the general public, the County Clerk being held responsible for the safe keeping of the same.

SEC. 4. The Secretary of State and the State Geologist shall each keep a record of the volumes and maps thus distributed, specifying the names of the institutions or individuals to whom the same are given, and the State Geologist shall biennially communicate such record as kept by him to the office of the Secretary of State, where a complete record of the distribution herein provided for shall be preserved.

SEC. 5. No person or institution shall receive more than one copy of each volume or map, under the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect immediately.