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to Mm the sum of two thousand dollars a year for each and 
every year during which he shall be engaged on said fourth and 
fifth volumes, to commence on the commencement of his labors 
upon said fourth volume and to be paid to him quarterly. 
2. That the party of the second part shall be allowed each year, 
commencing on the first day of January, in the year 1856, to ex- 
pend not exceeding one thousand dollars in the collection of the 
fossils to be described in said fourth and fifth volumes, the bills 
of which expenditure shall be supported by the usual vouchers 
and shall be audited by the parties of the first part. 3. The 
party of the second part shall, each year, commencing with the 
first day of January next, be allowed a vacation or vacations not 
exceeding three months in all, all of which shall be spent in not 
more than three dilferent periods in (lach year. 
Third. The said party of the second part hereby promises and 
agrees to and with the parties of the first part as follows, viz : 
1st. That when the said third volume shall be completed he will 
select with great care from the entire body of fossils owned by 
himself and the State, two as perfect suites as may be of all the 
fossils described in the first, second and third volumes of said 
work, and of all other fossils, if any, found in the same rocks, 
though not described, each of which suites shall consist of a suf- 
ficient number of specimens of each kind, fully to illustrate its 
character and peculiarities. And in case there shall not be a 
duplicate of any fossil, a plaster cast of the same shall be pro- 
cured by the party of the second part, at the expense of the State, 
and such fossil shall be placed in one suite, and the cast of the 
same in the other ; the parties of the first part shall then select 
one of said suites for the said State, and the other shall be the 
property of the party of the second part. 2d. On the comple- 
tion of the fourth, and also of the fifth volume, a like selection 
shall be made of two suites, and a plaster cast made in like man- 
ner in each case as the parties of the first part shall select, one 
of such suites for the State, and the other, in each case, shall be- 
long to the party of the second part, in all respects in like man- 
ner mutatis mutandis as is above provided in regard to the first 
three volumes. 
