STATE OF NEW-YORK. 
 
 No. 78. 
 
 IN ASSEMBLY, 
 
 February 13, 1845. 
 
 MESSAGE 
 
 From the Governor, transmitting Carroll and Cook's 
 
 Contract. 
 
 Executive Chamber, ) 
 Albany, 13th February, 1845. > 
 
 TO THE ASSEMBLY. 
 
 In compliance with the resolution of the honorable the Assembly, of 
 the 12th instant, requesting me to furnish that house with " a copy of 
 the contract with Messrs. Carroll & Cook, for the printing and bind- 
 ing of the Geological Survey of the State," I have the honor to trans- 
 mit a copy of a contract, which I find was deposited in the office of 
 the Comptroller, by the late Governor, and which I suppose to be the 
 contract, a copy of which is called for by the resolution. 
 
 SILAS WRIGHT. 
 
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Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library 
 Gift of Seymour B. Durst Old York Library 
 
CONTRACT 
 
 Of Carroll & Cook with the Governor to print the 
 Natural History of the State of New- York. 
 
 Articles of agreement made this twenty-fourth day of April, 1843, be- 
 tween the people of the State of New-York, by William C. Bouck, 
 Governor, pursuant to an act entitled " An act in relation to the 
 Natural History of New- York," passed April 8th, 1843, of the first 
 part, and Thomas B. Carroll and Alanson Cook, printers to the As- 
 sembly, of the second part, witnesseth — 
 
 That the said parties of the second part hereby covenant and en- 
 gage to publish and print all that which remains to be done to com- 
 plete all the volumes of the Natural History of the State of New- 
 York, and also to bind the said volumes ; the said printing and bind- 
 ing is in all respects to be as well executed and of as good paper as 
 the first volume of said History already printed. 
 
 The said parties of the second part are to receive from the treasury, 
 for said printing and binding, the following prices, to wit : 
 
 For the composition of every one thousand ems, forty-five cents. 
 For every ream of paper necessarily used, at the rate of five dollars 
 per ream. 
 
 For the press work, at the rate of one dollar for every white token. 
 For pressing the sheets, at the rate of fifty cents for every ream. 
 For folding, at the rate of forty cents for every ream. 
 For binding, at the rate of sixty-five cents per volume. 
 
 The foregoing prices are to include the expense of furnishing all 
 the materials, labelling the volumes, in pressing on the outer side of 
 the covers the appropriate illustrations, and the performance of every 
 kind of labor and every necessary expense to a perfect completion of 
 
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 the said printing and binding, in all respects, excepting, however, if 
 there should be any rule work, as it is technically called, that is, co- 
 lumns of matter that require to be justified, an additional allowance of 
 twenty cents for every one thousand ems of such work is to be paid. 
 
 The said volumes are to be of the same size as those now printed, 
 and every part of the work comprised in this contract shall be done in 
 such manner, and at such time as shall be required by, and approved 
 of, by the person administering the government of this State, on 
 whose certificate the Treasurer will be required to pay out of any mo- 
 neys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum to which the 
 said parties of the second part shall be entitled under this contract, 
 and as fast as each volume shall be completed, approved of by the 
 Governor, and deposited in the office of Secretary of State. 
 
 In witness whereof, the parties have hereunto subscribed their names, 
 the day and year first above written. 
 
 WM. C. BOUCK, 
 THOS. B. CARROLL, 
 ALANSON COOK. 
 
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