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ed and signed "John Young," E. Emmons" and "James Hall." 
That the work, when done, shall be delivered to the geologists, at 
the Slate Geological Rooms, and the steel plates shall be delivered 
with the work, and become the. property of the party of the first part. 
And it is declared, agreed and covenanted by, and in behalf of the 
said party of the first part, that the amount of lithographic engravings 
which said Pease shall have, and be entitled to under this contract, 
shall be equal to one hundred plates, averaging twenty figures 
each plate, and that the amount of steel engravings to be by him done, 
as aforesaid, shall equal fifty plates, averaging the same number of 
figures, per plate, as aforesaid. 
And, it is further agreed, that the following prices shall be paid to 
said Pease^ for work done by him under this contract, viz : 
For the lithographic engravings, $3 per figure, and the same price 
for the steel engravings. For printing the same, $1.50 per hundred. 
For lettering the same, $3.50 per plate, and for the paper 25 cents 
per pound. No work to be paid for until delivered, as aforesaid, 
and inspected by the geologists or one of them. 
In witness whereof, and in pursuance of the power given to him 
by the second section of the act aforesaid, in behalf of the State, John 
Young, Governor of said State, hath hereto set his hand, and the said 
Richard H. Pease, also, the day and year first above written. 
(Signed) JOHN YOUNG, 
RICHARD H. PEASE. 
MEMORANDUM OF AN AGREEMENT. 
Made and entered into between the State of New- York, of the first 
part, and John E. Gavit and Jam.es Duthie, 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 parlies aforesaid, that the said Gavit 
and Duthie shall and may, do, perform and exxcute, all the steel 
engravings of the drawings which are to be done on steel, requisite 
