No. 124.] 
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As to COLORING, It appears that a verbal contract was made with 
Ebenezer Emmons, jun., (Assembly Docmnent of 1850, No. 9, page 
27.) The written evidence of such contract is a certificate, of which 
the following is a copy : 
For the purpose of carrying into effect the law of 1847, for the 
completion of the Natural History of the State of New-York, I ver- 
bally designated to Ebenezer Emmons, jun., the coloring of the 
plates, fruits and insects, or such of them as might be necessary in 
the judgment of Messrs. Hall and Emmons, the gentlemen who had 
charge of the execution of the survey. 
(Signed,) "JOHN YOUNG. 
" Dated, March 8, 1849." 
As to the DRAWINGS, there was a verbal contract with James Hall 
to execute or have executed the original drawings necessary in hia 
department. The charge made for each drawing is one dollar and 
fifty cents. 
Mr. Richard H. Pease presented sundry claims for work done as 
above, which we proceeded to examine. As the account marked No. 
I contains sundry details, which it was necessary to compare with 
the existing contracts, we will here state its various items : 
State of New- York, 
To Richard H. Pease, Dr. 
For drawing on stone plate, (lithograph,) 
Plate No. 79, Onondaga salt group, 17 figures. 
82, 
do 
do 
9 
do 
83, 
do 
do 
13 
do 
84, 
do 
do 
18 
do 
67 figures. 
57 figures at $3 each, . . $171 00 
Lettering 4 pfges, at $3.50, 14 00 
4 pages printing at $45, 180 00 
465 lbs. paper, at 25 cents, 116 25 
$481 25 
