1847-09-03 Story Statue: Agreement Between Trustees of the Cemetery of Mt. Auburn & William W. Story (page 1)

Model to the Trustees, & deliver it to them or
their Agent, & shall then be entitled to receive
one moiety of the sum hereinafter mentioned
held by the Treasurer of the said Institution
for the purchase of a Statue of the late
Honorable Joseph Story, with the interest or
income accrued thereon from & after the date
of this Agreement.

And the said Story further
agrees that in designing & executing such
Model & Statue & Pedestal, he will exercise his
best skill, art, & dispatch.

And the said Trustees in
behalf of the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount
Auburn, in consideration of the foregoing
covenants on the part of the said William
W. Story, do hereby agree with the said Story
that they will pay over to him or his order
the sum of thirty nine hundred seventy dollars together with
all the interest or increase accruing thereon
between the date of this Instrument & the
payment of the said monies in manner
following to wit - One half of the said sum
& increase which shall have accrued to be
paid upon the completion & transfer to them
of the clay model of the said Statue, & the
other half of the said sum & increase which
shall then have accrued, to be paid upon
the completion & delivery of the marble statue
at Mt. Auburn as aforesaid.

In Testimony whereof the said Trus-
tees by Charles P. Curtis & John C. Gray, a Committee
thereof thereunto lawfully authorized, & the said
William W. Story have hereunto set their hands
the day & year above written.

Charles P. Curtis
John C. Gray
W.W. Story

[red seal]

NB: These funds are invested in Scrip of the
United States & in shares of the Atlantic Bank
in Boston-