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the volume on insects, by Dr. Emmons, to have exceeded the 
sum of fifteen thousand dollars, exclusive of printing. 
There were paid for plates of Hall's Paleontology, as follows : 
No. 1, To Richard H. Pease, $734 00 
No. 3, do do 337 00 
No. 4, do do 280 00 
No. 5, do do 343 00 
No. 6, do do 352 00 
No. 7, do do 286 50 
No. 8, do do 229 75 
No. 9, do do 447 25 
No. 10, do do 294 00 
No. 15, To Richard H. Pease, 448 50 
$3,752 00 
All the payments during the year on the publication of the 
Natural History of the State— $5,559.62. 
In the report of December 31st, 1855, (see Assembly Doc. of 
1856, No. 150,) the payments since the last annual report are • 
stated as follows, viz : $3,895.50. 
It also appears from this report, that the commissioners, on 
the 30th day of June, 1855, entered into an agreement with Prof. 
Hall, for the completion of the work on Paleontology, in five 
volumes, giving the said Hall until the first day of January, 
1857, to complete the third volume, which in 1847, Prof. Hall 
thought he could complete in two years from that date; also four 
years for each of the two succeeding volumes, paying the said 
Hall six thousand dollars for the third volume, two thousand 
dollars down, one thousand dollars on the first of January, 1856, 
one thousand dollars on the first of October, 1856, and the ba- 
lance when the third volume is^completed. 
By said agreement, said Hall is to be paid two thousand dol- 
lars each year, while engaged on the fourth and fifth volumes, 
nine months in each year^ and one thousand dollars additional for 
