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that purpose, as directed by a concurrent resolution of the Legislature 

 passed on the fourteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty- 

 one, and to provide facilities in the museum for the study of its col- 

 lections, and by means of printed hand-books describing said collec- 

 tions, and in such other ways as may be practicable, to make said 

 museum a means of instruction to the citizens of the State. In order 

 to provide for the expense of printing the aforesaid scientific publi- 

 cations and in order to increase the usefulness and efficiency of said 

 museum as aforesaid, the annual appropriation to be made for its 

 maintenance shall be fifteen thousand dollars, to be paid on vouchers 

 approved by said trustees. 



§ 3. The trustees of the State Museum of Natural History are hereby 

 appointed to supervise the completion of the publication of the Palae- 

 ontology of the State, to contract for the preparation and printing 

 thereof, and to audit and certify to the expenditures therefor; and it 

 is hereby provided that one volume of said Palaeontology shall be pub- 

 lished within one year from the execution of the contract for its prepa- 

 ration, that a second volume shall be published within two years, 

 and that the entire work shall not extend beyond five bound volumes 

 in addition to those already issued, all of which shall be published 

 within five years from the passage of this act, and shall comprise the 

 following subjects, that is to say, the Lamellibranchiata to be bound 

 in two volumes, the Bryozoans to be bound in one volume, the Braclii- 

 opoda to be bound in one volume, and the Crustacea, et cetera, to be 

 bound in one volume ; and the sum of fifteen thousand dollars shall 

 be appropriated annually for five years for the purposes of this section, 

 payable on vouchers certified by said trustees ; which sum of fifteen 

 thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby 

 appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appro- 

 priated for the purpose of said publication for the current year. 



§ 4. The volumes of the Natural History hereafter to be published, 

 and the copies still remaining of the volumes already published, shall 

 be in the charge of the trustees of said museum, who shall distribute 

 and sell the same in accordance with the provisions of law now in 

 force for such distribution and sale, and the proceeds of such sale said 

 trustees shall use for the purpose of forming a suitable library for said 

 museum, and they shall have authority to make exchanges with such 

 portion of the volumes of said work as are not required for distribu- 

 tion or sale, and to receive donations and deposits of books and speci- 

 mens on such terms as they shall deem advantageous for said museum. 



Contract betweex the State of New York by the Trustees 

 of the State Museuw of Natural History axd Charles H. 

 Vas" Bexthuysex. 



Memorandum of agreement made this twenty-eighth day of July, 

 1883, between the State of New York, by the Regents of the Univer- 

 sity acting as trustees of the State Museum of Natural History, pur- 

 suant to chapter 355 of the Laws of 1883, and Charles H. Van Ben- 

 thuysen, printer, of the city of Albany, witnesseth : 



Whereas, The State of New York, by William C. Bouck, Governor, 

 entered into a contract on the fourth day of April, 1813, with Thomas 



