Hereafter the secretary of internal affairs, in lieu of the auditor general, shall send out the blanks required by the act of May ninth, 1871, entitled "An act for the collection of mineral statistics," and said secretary shall do and perform all the duties enjoined in said act in regard to the collecting, compiling and publishing a report of the same number of copies ordered to be published by the auditor general.
52 P.S. § 1448