Witness to sigi 
Witness to sigt 
Expenses incurred for alterations in type or plates, exccedi-)ig ten per cent, of 
cost of composition and stereotyping or electrotyping said work, are to be charged 
to the author s accotmt. 
Statements to be rendered semi-annually , on the author s application therefor, 
in the months of F'ebruary and August, and settleiiients to be made in cash, four months 
after date of statement. The first statement shall not be rendered until six months after 
date of publication. 
If, on the expiration of years from date of publication, or at any time 
thereafter, the demand for said work should not, in the opinion of said Charles 
Scribner’s Sons, be sufficient to render its publication, profitable, then this contract 
shall have 
shall cease and determine ; and thereupon said 
the right, at his option, to take from said Charles Scribner's Sons, at cost, the stereo- 
type plates and engravings fif any) of said work, and whatever copies they may then have 
on hand ; or, failing to take said plates and copies at cost, then said Charles 
Scribner’s Sons shall have the right to dispose of the copies on hand as they -may see 
fit, free of any percentage or royalty, to melt up the plates, and to cancel this contract. 
Provided, also, that if, at any time during the continuance op this agreement, 
said zvork shall become unsalable in the ordinary channels of trade, said Charles 
Scribneir’s Sons shall have the right to dispose of any copies on hand, paying to said 
of the net amount received therefor, in lieu of the percentage hereinbefore prescribed. 
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