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the governor and secretary of State that he, she, or they are the actual and 

 bona fide owners of tlie first volumes or of any of the consecutive volumes, be- 

 ginning with and including the first of the Natural History of this State, shall 

 be entitled to purchase from said secretary the remaining volumes necessary 

 to complete such imperfect sets of said Natural History, now published and 

 which shall hereafter be publislied, together with the niap accompanying the 

 same, at tlie price of $1 per volume and $1 for said map ; but no person who 

 shall become such owner of tiie said first volume or of any of tlie said consecu- 

 tive volumes, beginning with and including the first as aforesaid, under the 

 fifth section of the act entitled "An act relating to the geological survey of the 

 Btate," passed April 9, 1842, shall be entitled to such remaining volumes, except 

 ■pon payment of $1 per volume for all such previous volumes of which he shall 

 become the owner as aforesaid. 



3. If the booksellers witli whom contracts for the sale of the said work were 

 heretofore entered into shall deliver to the secretary of state unsold copies 

 thereof forming complete sets of the same, as far as published, the said 

 governor and secretary are hereby authorized to sell and dispose of such com- 

 plete sets with the volumes remaining to be published and the said maps, at 

 the price of $1 per volume and .$1 for said map. 



4. The governor and secretary of st.ite are hereby authorized to sell the 

 copyright of said work in sep.irate portions or otherwise as soon as the re- 

 maining volumes thereof shall be published. 



5. It siiall be the duty of the several county treasurers of this State, in selling 

 the volumes of the Natural History of New York, in pursuance of the act 

 entitled "An act in relation to the Natural History of New York," passed May 

 8, 1844, to sell and deliver the volumes of said Natural History, first, to any 

 such person or association as shall within six months after such treasurer 

 Bhall have received hereafler the several volumes of said Natural History, 

 prove to the satisfaction of said treasurer, that he, she, or they are the 

 present bona fide owners of the preceding volumes of said Natural History, 

 «old under the said act of May 3, 1844, by the treasurer of the same county 

 to whom application shall be made. 



C. This act shall take effect immediately. 



An act in relation to the Natural Ilistory of tbe Stale of New York, pasficd May 5. 1847, 



Tlie people of the Htnte of Neiv York, represented in senate and asstnibly, 

 Ao enact as follows: 



1. The provisions of the first and second sections of the act entitled "An act 

 concerning the Natural History of the State of New York," passed iMay 5, 

 1846, are hereby continued, and shall be in force for the terra of one year from 

 the passage of this act; and the secretary of state is hereby authorized and 

 directed to sell to such of the institutions named in the first section of the 

 above-mentioned act which now are or hereafter may be incorporated during 

 the continuance of this act, copies of the Natural History of this State, upon 

 tlie conditions and subject to the restrictions therein contained. 



2. This act shall take effect immediately. 



Aji act in relation to the Natural History of the State of New York, passed April 16. 



18.52. 



The people of the State of New York, represented in senate and aygemhly, 

 do enact as follows: 



1. The provisions of the first and second sections of the act entitled "An act 

 concerning the Natural History of the State of New York," passed May 5, 



