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paid for ; and that he deposite the 10 steel plates with Mr. Gebhard. 
All of which w^as complied with, and the account was then certified. 
Mr. Gavit presented the following account : 
The State of New-York, to Gavit & Duthie, Dr. 
To engraving 14 steel plates of Temperature tables, avera- 
ging 10 figures per plate, amounting in the aggregate 
to 140 figures at $3, per figure, |420 00 
This account is noticed in Mr. Gavit's testimony (Assembly docu- 
ment, 1850, No. 9, page 110.) There are twenty-one tables on fourteen 
plates. Mr. Gavit estimates each plate as equal to ten figures. Dr. 
Emmons, it appears, regarded the whole at 21 figures only. It ap- 
pears that the above account was submitted to Governor Fish, who 
waived the payment in 1849, because he was restricted by law, to 
make no payment except in strict conformity" to the contracts. 
Unfortunately there is nothing in the contracts to meet the difficulties 
in the case. It is quite evident that they might have been avoided 
by a few previous arrangements, or by a reference to the Executive. 
Under all the circumstances of the case, we do not feel willing to 
disallow a charge sworn to as reasonable, under oath, (See Assembly 
document, 1850, No. 9, p. 110) and w^hich indeed appears to us, to 
have involved a considerable deal of minute labor. Again the color- 
ing of these plates, trivial as it is, is charged at nearly treble the above 
account. We therefore certified it to the Comptroller. 
Mr. Pease, presented the following in JunCabut dated May 22, 1850: 
Engraving on steel. 
Plate 52, 64 figures at $3.00, $192 00 
A 66, 37 " 3.00, Ill 00 
22, 25 « 3.00, 75 00 
Lettering, 3 plates at 3.50, 10 50 
Printing 3,000 impressions of each at $45, 135 00 
360 lbs. of paper for do at 25 cts., 90 00 
$613 50 
I certify that the work specified as above had been executed under 
my direction for the 2d volume of the Palaeontology of New-York, and 
that the same has been done in accordance with the tenor of the con- 
tract. (Signed) JAMES HALL. 
