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B. Carroll and Alanson Cook, for printing and binding the Natural 

 History of the State of New York, and on the twenty-seventh day of 

 July, 1847, by John Young, Governor, entered into a contract with 

 Richard H. Pease for the lithographic engravings of the drawings re- 

 quisite for completing the Natural History of the State of New York; 

 and 



Whereas, On the fifth day of October, 1871, the State of New York, 

 by Homer A. Nelson, Secretary of State, and Samuel B. Woolworth, 

 Secretary of the Board of Regents acting pursuant to chapter 717 of 

 the Laws of 1868, entered into a further contract with Charles Van 

 Benthuysen, printer, of the city of Albany, assignee of the two afore- 

 said contracts for the continuation of the work to be performed in 

 publishing the aforesaid Natural History ; and 



Whereas, The execution of the said contracts was transferred to 

 the firm of Charles Van Benthuysen & Sons, composed of Charles Van 

 Benthuysen, Charles H. Van Benthuysen and Arthur L. Van Ben- 

 thuysen; and 



Whereas, By the death of the said Charles and Arthur L. Van 

 Benthuysen, the said Charles H. Van Benthuysen, as the survivor, has 

 succeeded to the rights and obligations of said firm under said con- 

 tract; and 



Whereas, Elizabeth Root Van Benthuysen, widow and executrix 

 of the will of late Charles Van Benthuysen, has by a writing hereon 

 indorsed in behalf of herself and the estate consented to certain modi- 

 fications of said contract hereinafter described, 



Now, therefore, it is hereby agreed by the aforesaid trustees and 

 Charles H. Van Benthuysen, his heirs and assigns, that the said Van 

 Benthuysen shall execute, as hereinafter described, the work required 

 under the aforesaid contracts for the publication of the remaining vol- 

 umes of the Palaeontology of the State, as defined in section three of 

 chapter 355 of the Laws of 1883, and the publication of said volumes 

 of Palaeontology as therein defined, shall constitute the completion of 

 the publication of the Natural History of the State of New York, as 

 provided for by the aforesaid contracts ; that is to say, the said Van 

 Benthuysen shall print in letter-press the text of said Palaeontology 

 from good and clear type on paper of thirty-five pounds to the ream, 

 and the explanations of the plates on paper of sixteen pounds to the 

 ream, substantially as per samples herewith, and he shall execute in 

 good style for said text to be printed therewith the wood cuts required 

 for illustrations, not to exceed one hundred in all the volumes ; he 

 shall print in lithography the residue of the plates for said work, as 

 hereinafter described, on Tileston's best plate paper, weighing eighty- 

 five pounds to the ream, as per sample herewith, and he shall bind the 

 said work in full cloth with title on back, and sides stamped in gold 

 and black, and the printing, lithography and binding in style and exe- 

 cution shall be in all respects equal and conformable to those of the 

 volume last published, entitled volume five, part two of Palaeontology, 

 except that no engraved title-page with vignette shall be required in 

 any of the volumes hereafter to be printed ; said work shall be printed 

 in five volumes, three thousand copies of each, to contain in all not 

 more than one thousand three hundred and seventy-five pages of text, 



