1833.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 138.

perty for any contract or engagments of said society, or for any losses, deficiencies or failures of the corporate proper- ty of said society; but the whole of the said corporate pro- perty, together with all lights and credits belonging to said society, shall at all times be answerable for the debts of the said sociefy.

	CHAPTER 138.
Passed Feb. 25, 1834	An act to provide for making a new and complete map and a geological survey of this state.
Annual appoint- ment	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma- ryland, That the Governor and Council be and they are hereby authorised and required annually hereafter to ap- point and commission a person of talents, integrity and
Topographical en gineer	suitable scientific attainments as topogiaphical engineer for the State of Maryland; and also to appoint and com- mission in like manner a competent and suitable person
Geologist	as geologist, for the State of Maryland, and the said offi- cers shall each receive in consideration of the faithful per- formance 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 is aforesaid to proceed with all due and reasonable diligence and care to collect the necessary information, and make all the necessary surveys and locations to enable him to make a perfect and com-
Survey and map	plete map of the state according to the plan and drawing prepared and submitted to the exocutive of the state by J. H. Alexander, Esq. under and in pursuance of a reso- lution of the General Assembly, passed at December ses- sion, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and the said engi- neer shall, as soon as conveniently he can, make perfect and complete the said map.
Geological survey	Sec. 3 And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the geologist to be appointed as aforesaid, to make a com-
Directions as to	plete and minute geological survey of the whole state, commencing with that portion which belongs to the terti-