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he induced to direct their attention to the further investigation and 
^development of different departments, v^ould be the most satisfactory 
remuneration to the authors of these works, who have prepared them 
^under the munificent patronage of the State. 
Not doubting but your committee, in their wisdom, will adopt and 
recommend such a course as they shall deem most conducive to the 
interests of the people, we will assure you that we shall be ready to 
cooperate in any plan to secure the objects in view. 
We have the honor to be, 
" Your obedient servants, 
-EBENEZER EMMONS, 
JAMES HALL. 
" Hon. Charles Drake " 
Your committee are of the opinion that the work can be published 
in six octavo volumes, not exceeding six hundred pages each, and can 
'be furnished to the public at the cost of one dollar and fifty cents 
.per volume, in fancy muslin binding, and on paper of good quality, 
making the cost of the whole text, nine dol'ars. This estimate is 
supported by a communication from Messrs. Carroll & Cook, which 
is as follows : 
Albany, Feb. 25, 1846. 
Hon. C. Drake, Chairman of Select Committee 
on printing the Natural History of New- York. 
" Sir : In answer to your enquiry for the expense of reprinting 
* Natural History of iNew-Yoik,' per one hundred pages octavo, 
we would siate, that, after a careful estimate of the same, it v\ould 
amount to the sum of $350.00. We have et>iimaled, (in order to ar- 
rive at this result,) the cost of composiiion at 40 cents per 1000 ems ; 
press work at 40 cents per toketi of 250 impressions ; paper at .^-5 
per ream or thereabouts ; and pressing, folding, drying, and pressing 
sheets and stitching, at $3.40 for each signature of 8 pages. This 
'estimate is for the printing of 3,000 copies of the work upon small 
^icdi type. 
Respectfully yours^ 
^' CARROLL & COOK.^' 
Your committee, therefore, understand that, by this estimate, it 
will cost about 12| cents per hundred pages to print the work, which, 
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