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May 3, 1850. 
Mr. Pease urging J)ayment of his accounts, and having purchased 
from Ebenezer Emmons, Jr., his account against the State for color- 
ing, which was recognized by the committee, of which Mr. Cornell 
was chairman, as amounting to $6,000, we, in order to have more 
time to examine this and other accounts in detail agreed, to advance 
to him $3,000 on the above account, and certified accordingly to the 
Comptroller. 
Professor Hall presented the following accounts : 
1. Erastus H. Pease, for stationery furnished, $11 00 
2. Matthew Gregan, for labor in opening boxes, ar- 
ranging specimens, making fires, &c., from Dec. 1, 
1849, to Jan. 1, 1850, one-half of the time at $2.50 
per week. 10 00 
Do. for similar services from Jan. 1, 1850, to April 
1, 1850, four-fifths of the time, for thirteen weeks 
at $4 per week, 52 00 
3. F. J. Swinton, original drawings of fossils made 
since July 1, 1849, seventy-six figures for the re- 
port on Palaeontology, at $1.50, 114 00 
4. Mrs. Brooks, drawings of fossils, 250 figures, at 
$1.50, 375 00 
5. Mrs. S. M. Hall, 251 figures drawn, at $1.50,. . . . 376 50 
6. James Hall, charges for freight and cartage of 
boxes, packing boxes, &c., 9 38 
O. Root, freight of boxes from Schoharie, &c., 1847,. 3 00 
Amount paid Lake Wilder for collections made in 
1847, 25 00 
$975 88 
As some of the above accounts for the drawings of fossils were 
presented in gross, we required specifications of the particular ones 
drawn, as minute as could be made, and also that they should desig- 
nate whether they were intended for the second or third volume of 
the Palaeontology. We have these on file, and so far as we can esti- 
mate, of the 577 drawings charged 217 were for the second volume, 
and 360 drawings for the third or ensuing volumes. 
