90 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



P. Lukin one of the Subscribing Notary's the day & year first above 

 written and have the sd. PhiUip Liebert & Alexr. Henry Signed these 

 Presents with us sd. Notary's the same being first duly read and 

 interpreted/^ words in the margin approved one word obliterated null/ 



Ph. Liebert. 



Before the underwritten Public Notarys, of the Province of Lower 

 Canada, residing in the City of Montreal, personnally came and were 

 present John Jacob Astor, of the City of New York, Merchant, at 

 present in Montreal aforesaid, on the one part, and Fleury Mesplet of 

 the sd City of Montreal, Printer of the other part, who voluntarily 

 declared and confessed that they had made agreed and concluded, and 

 by these presents do make agree and conclude by and between them 

 the following articles of agreement as follows. 



Whereas the said Fleury Mesplet hath declared that he has a claim 

 upon the Congress of the United States to the amount of three thousand 

 five hundred & forty three pounds twelve shillings^ Pensylvania 

 Currency, from and out of which sum he has received an amount by 

 the order of sd. Congress, the sum of four hundred Spanish dollars, 

 and having by a certain power of attorney, executed before P. Lukin 

 one of the subscribing notaries, bearing even date with these presents, 

 delivered into the Hands of the said John Jacob Astor, by the said 

 Fleury Mesplet, which the said John Jacob Astor doth hereby ac- 

 knowledge to have had and received, He the said Fleury Mesplet hath 

 empowered the said John Jacob Astor, for him and in the name and 

 behalf of the said Fleury Mesplet, to ask demand and receive of and 

 from the said Congress of the United States, the full amount of the 

 said claim with the deduction aforesaid. Now these Presents doth 

 witness, and it is the true intent and meaning of the said parties, that 

 if the said John Jacob Astor shall at his diligence and costs take all 

 legal ways and means soever, in the name and behalf of the said 

 Fleury Mesplet to secure and receive of and from the Congress of the 

 United States aforesaid, the claim aforesaid, and that the said John 

 Jacob Astor shall so receive the full sum of three thousand five hundred 

 & forty-three pounds twelve shillings Pensylvania currency aforesaid 

 with the deduction of the four hundred dollars aforesaid, whether in 

 money or state securities within the space and time of nine calenders 

 months from the day of the date of these presents, then and in that 

 case, and it is the true intent and meaning of these presents, that the 

 said John Jacob Astor, shall and will, & thereby binds and obliges 



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