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cents, to all persons who shall, on or before the first day of January 
next, certify their desire to purchase said plates, to the Comptroller^ 
whose duty it shall be to keep a list of all such applicants and deliveif 
the same to the publishers at any time when called upon. 
^ 5. In case any one or more of the persons named in the first section 
of this bill shall neglect or refuse to comply with the first, second or 
four/ sections of this bill, then the remaining persons so named, or 
aiv<; ..'ne of them, may, by assuming the requisite responsibility named 
' nie second section of ihis act, own and enjoy all the rights and privi- 
. ges granted to said person or persons in this bill. 
§ 6. In case neither or any of the persons named in the first section 
of ihis act, shall comply wiih the conditions therein specified, then and 
in that case the Secretary of State shall give due notice through one 
of the newspapers in each county in the Stale to be by him designa- 
ted, offering the copyright to any publisher who will undertake to 
carry out the inicniion of this act at the cheapest price per volume, on 
paper and with type for the text as good as scientific works are now 
pul)lished, or such as the Governor, Secretary and Comptroller shall 
designate. 
§ 7. Such publisher or publishers shall enter into bond.s, with good 
securities, to be approved by the Governor, Secretary of State and 
Comptroller, for the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars, to the State 
of New- York, conditioned for his or their faithful performance of the 
contract. 
§ 8. Said publisher or pliblishers shall, upon filing said bonds with 
the Comptroller, have and enjoy all the privileges granted in the dif- 
ferent sections of this bill to the authors named in the first section of 
this act. 
§ 9. The Governor^ Secretary of State and Comptroller^ may, if they 
are satisfied the interest of the work requires it, give the person or 
persons executing the publishing of said Natural History, an exten* 
sion of lime to publish the edition named in and specified in section 
second, upon the condition that said publisher or publishers renew 
their bonds in the like manner and for the same sum specified in sec-^ 
tion seventh. 
§10. This act shall take effect immediately. 
