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which may be required for said volumes, aud shall supervise the work 

 of lithographing said drawings ; shall inspect and approve the proofs 

 of plates and the paper to be used in printing said plates, and shall 

 receive from and receipt to said lithographer for the printed plates as 

 they may be delivered to him ; it is further agreed that the said Hall 

 shall furnish to the printer the manuscript of the text and the draw- 

 ings for the plates and the manuscript of the descriptions of the plates 

 for the several volumes, in such order and within such reasonable time 

 as may be required for the due printing and delivery of the same at 

 the dates hereinafter fixed, the last installment of said manuscript of 

 text and descriptions of plates and of said drawings for each of said 

 volumes to be furnished to said printer not later than two months be- 

 fore the date so fixed ; and that the dates of the delivery of the several 

 volumes to the said trustees shall be as follows, that is to say, the first 

 volume on LamellibrancMata by the fifteenth day of February, 1884; 

 the second volume on LamellibrancMata by the first day of January, 

 1885; the volume on Bryozoa by the first day of May, 1886; the vol- 

 ume on Crustacea, et cetera, by the first day of May, 1887, and the 

 volume on BracMopoda by the first day of August, 1888 ; and it is 

 further agreed that for the services as aforesaid the said Hall 

 shall be paid as follows, that is to say, as compensation for author- 

 ship and including the correction of proof and the supervision 

 of the drawing and lithography as herein described, the sum of 

 twelve hundred dollars per annum for five years ; as compensation 

 for an assistant to be employed by the said Hall for the 

 purpose of aiding in the preparation of said work a sum not to 

 exceed one thousand dollars in any one year, to be paid on vouchers 

 certified by said Hall; and as compensation for the execution of the 

 drawings required for said volumes to be executed under his super- 

 vision and subject to his approval by persons to be employed by him, 

 there shall be paid from time to time upon vouchers certified by him 

 such sums as may be required, not to exceed in the aggregate for all 

 the remaining drawings, three thousand dollars, and at a rate not to 

 exceed on an average the sum of three and one-half dollars for each 

 figure so drawn ; and whereas, under chapter two hundred and 

 seventy of the Laws of 1882, and under chapter two hundred and forty- 

 three of the Laws of 1883, appropriations are made for James Hall as 

 State Geologist for compensation for authorship and superintendence 

 of drawings and engravings and for persons employed in making draw- 

 ings, it is further covenanted and agreed that whatever sums are 

 received from the State by the said Hall after the date hereof, on 

 account of services for authorship and superintendence of drawings 

 and engravings or for expenditures for persons employed in making 

 drawings under the aforesaid acts, or under any future acts of appro- 

 priation available during the time of this contract, other than those 

 in pursuance of said chapter three hundred and fifty-five of the Laws 

 of 1883, first above referred to, shall be credited to the payments 

 herein stipulated to be paid to said Hall for such services and expendi- 

 tures, and shall be in place of payments made from the appropriations 

 provided in and in pursuance of the aforesaid chapter three hundred 

 and fifty-five of the Laws of 1883 ; and it is further agreed, in case the 



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