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" The sum of eighteen thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for 
the payment of claims for services and expenses attending the publi- 
cation of the Natural History of the State, to be paid on the certifi- 
cate of the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Regents of the 
University, to whose supervision the said work is committed and who 
shall hereafter have the control of the same." 
In compliance with the above, we issued a notice in the Albany 
Argus and the Albany Evening Journal, desiring all persons having 
claims against the State, on account of ihe above, to present them at 
the office of the Secretary of State, on or before the 1st of May, 
1850. 
It became our duty also to inform ourselves as to the existing con- 
tracts for carrying on the work of the " Natural History." These 
are given in full in Assembly Document of 1850, No. 9, pages 54, 
65, 56, and are as follows : 
MEMORANDUM OF AN AGREEMENT, 
Made and entered into between the State of New- York, of the first 
part, and Richard H. Pease of the city of Albany, of the second part, 
the twenty-seventh day of July, one thousand eight hundred and 
forty-seven : Witnesseth, That it is hereby covenanted and agreed 
by and between the parties, aforesaid, that the said Pease shall and 
may do, perform and execute all the lithographic engravings of the 
drawings which are to be done on stone, requisite and designed for 
completing the publication of the Natural History of the State of 
New-York, under, and in pursuance of the act of the Legislature, 
passed May 7, 1847, for that purpose, and also fifty plates of the 
steel engravings of the said work, twenty-five of which said steel 
plates, are to be from drawings illustrating that part of said work in 
charge of Prof. Emmons, and the remaining twenty -five from draw- 
ings illustrating that part of said work in charge of Prof. Hall ; and 
also all the printing and lettering of the said engravings, above 
agreed to be given to and done by said Pease. 
And it is further agreed, as aforesaid, that the paper for said en- 
gravings shall be equal in quality to that now in use for the illustra- 
tions of said work. And that the engraving shall be as good as the 
specimens exhibited to the Governor, which said specimens are mark- 
