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And it is further mutually agreed, by and between tlie parties 
hereto, that in case any question shall arise between the parties 
hereto growing out of this contract, that the same shall be sub- 
ject to the award and final determination of two arbitrators, one 
of whom shall be selected by one of the parties hereto, and one 
by the other; and in case of their inability to agree, they shall 
themselves select a third. All such arbitrators shall, however, 
be selected from the following named persons, as long as any 
three of them shall remain alive, viz : Louis Agassiz of Cam- 
bridge, James D. Dana of New Haven, Augustus A. Gould of 
Boston, Chester Dewey of Rochester, and William C. Logan of 
Canada. 
It is, however, further understood and agreed by and between 
the parties hereunto, that in regard to the fossils described in 
the first volume of said work, the said party of the second part 
shall complete, at the time before mentioned, the suite of said 
last mentioned fossils already delivered by him to the State, so 
as to embrace all the fossils described in such volume; and such 
suite shall be made as full and complete as is hereinbefore par- 
ticularly indicated, and when so completed the same shall be 
accepted and received by the State in full satisfaction of such 
portion of the fossils as are described in said first volume. 
In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals 
the day and year aforesaid. 
Signed, sealed and delivered, "J 
in the presence of i 
Franklin B. Hough. J 
The foregoing contract seems to have been based upon the 
Session Laws for 1855, chap. 539, passed April 14th, 1855, (the 
supply bill,) which reads as follows: 
" The sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for 
the payment of any expenses growing out of the Natural Histo- 
ry of this State, to be paid only on the certificate of the Secreta- 
E. W. LEAVENWORTH, 
Sec'y of State^ [l. s.] 
T. ROMEYN BECK, [l. s.J 
JAMES HALL, [l. s.] 
