Geological Survey Act 1845

1845 CHAPTER 63

An Act to facilitate the Completion of a Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland, under the Direction of the First Commissioner for the Time being of Her Majesty's Woods arid Works

[31st July 1845]

WHEREAS Sums of Money have been from Time to Time granted and appropriated by Parliament to the making a Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland, in connexion with a Trigonometrical Survey of Great Britain, in progress under the Direction of the Master General and Board of Ordnance, and Powers are vested in the said Master General and Board of Ordnance for facilitating the Execution and Completion of Surveys under their Charge: And whereas the Union, under the Board of Ordnance, of Surveys having no direct Connexion with each other, has in some Instances been productive of Inconvenience, and it has been deemed expedient to withdraw the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom from the Conduct of the Master General and Board of Ordnance, and to place the same under the Direction and Superintendence of the First Commissioner for the Time being of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings, subject nevertheless to the Control of the Lord High Treasurer or Commissioners for the Time being of Her Majesty's Treasury : And whereas it is essential to the Prosecution of such Geological Survey that the First Commissioner for the Time being of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings should have as ample Powers for making and completing the same as the Master General and Board of Ordnance possess for making and completing Surveys in charge of the said last-mentioned Board:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same,