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ry of State and the Secretary of the Board of Regents, who are 
hereby authorized and directed to take charge of all the matters 
appertaining to the compilation and completion of such Natural 
History, with power to make such contracts^ limiting the num- 
ber of volumes^ fixing the compensation^ and otherwise^ as they may 
think proper y 
By virtue of the foregoing contract, the amount it will cost 
the State to complete the work on Paleontology, as near as the 
committee can estimate the same, will be between ninety and 
one hundred thousand dollars, as will be seen from the follow- 
ing items of expenditure, based upon data furnished the com- 
mittee appointed to investigate the matters connected with the 
publication of the Natural History, &c. (See Assembly Doc, 
1850, No. 9, page 175.) 
For completing the unfinished portions of volume three : 
To James Hall, for naming and describing fossils, as 
per contract, $6,000 00 
Engraving 700 figures, at $3.00, 2,100 00 
700 drawings, at |1.50, :\ 1 ,050 00 
Printing 3000 each of 50 plates, at $1.50 per 100, 2,250 00 
Paper for 3000 impressions each of 50 plates, at 
$30.00 per plate, 1,500 00 
Lettering 50 plates, at $3.50 per plate, 175 00 
Printing title page, 76 25 
Printing and binding 3000 copies, 6,000 00 
Total to be expended on third volume, $19,151 25 
Estimated expense for completing volume four : 
To James Hall, salary for four years, (nine months 
in each year,) .... , $8,000 00 
James Hall, for collecting fossils, 4,500 00 
Engraving 2000 figures, at $3.00, 6 ,000 00 
2000 drawings, at $1.50, 3,000 00 
Lettering 100 plates, at $3.50, 350 00 
Printing 3000 each of the 100 plates, at $1.50 
per 100, 4,500 00 
Paper for 3000 impressions each of 100 plates, 
$30.00 per plate, 3,000 00 
