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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1833.

Rule for
selection.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That in making selections of deaf
and dumb under this act, and the act to which this is a supple-
ment, the following rules shall be observed. 1st. One shall be
selected from each county and the city of Baltimore, from which
a return shall have been received ; and from which none has
heretofore been selected and sent to the institution. 2d. If after
one shall have been selected from each county and the city of
Baltimore, having made a return, the whole number provided
for by law, shall not have been obtained, then another shall be
selected from the county or the city of Baltimore, from which
the greatest number has been returned, and so on, another from
the county having returned the next highest number, until the
whole number shall have been obtained.

Governor to
fill vacancy.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That after the whole number pro-
vided for by law, shall be in the institution, whenever a vacancy
or vacancies shall occur, and be known to the governor, he
shall immediately make a selection or selections to fill such
vacancy or vacancies, observing the rule prescribed in the pre-
ceding section of this act.

CHAPTER 138.

AN ACT to provide for making a new and complete Map, and a Geological
Survey of this State.
See 1834, ch. 230.

Annual ap-
pointment.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the governor and council be, and they are hereby autho-
rized and required, annually hereafter to appoint and commis-
sion a person of talents, integrity and suitable scientific attain-

Topo-
grahical en-
gineer.
Geologist.

ments, as topographical engineer for the state of Maryland ; and
also to appoint and commission in like manner, a competent
and suitable person as geologist for the state of Maryland, and
the said officers shall each receive in consideration of the faith-
ful performance of their respective duties, an annual salary of
two thousand dollars, to be paid as the salaries of the other civil
officers of the state are or may be directed to be paid.

Duty of
engineer.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
engineer to be appointed as aforesaid, to proceed with all due
and reasonable diligence and care, to collect the necessary infor-
mation, and make all the necessary surveys and locations to

Survey and
map.

enable him to make a perfect and complete map of the state,
according to the plan and drawing prepared and submitted to
the executive of the state, by J. H. Alexander, Esq. under and
in pursuance of a resolution of the general assembly, passed at
December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and the
said engineer shall, as soon as conveniently he can, make per-
fect and complete the said map.