Adams Statue: Contract with Randolph Rogers, 1855 (page 3)

to say : First, one thousand dollars upon the
completion of the said Statuette, & the conveyance of the
said Statuette to said Corporation, & the delivery of said
four daguerreotypes or photographs as aforesaid to said
Corporation : Second, fifteen^^[Fourteen?] hundred dollars
upon the completion & conveyance of the full sized
figure in plaster to said Corporation as aforesaid :
Third, twenty five hundred dollars upon the final
and full performance of this contract, & the delivery of
the said Statue of John Adams^^{J. A.} as aforesaid, together
with said pedestal, to said Corporation, within the
term of three years & six months as aforesaid :
provided always, that if the said marble
statue & pedestal are not so delivered to said Cor-
poration as aforesaid, within said term of three
years & six months, the said Rogers^^C shall have no
claim upon said Corporation for any sum there re-
maining unpaid to him, nor any claim for or on
account of his services rendered in the matter as
above more specifically set forth.

In witness whereof the said Rogers^^C hath
hereunto set his hand & seal on the day of the date
of this instrument; And on the same day, the
said Corporation hath hereunto set its common
seal, & caused these presents to be signed by its Pres-
ident, Jacob Bigelow, who acting herein assumes
no personal responsibility in the premises, & acts ex-
clusively & only under the vote of the Trustees of said
Corporation, (an attested copy of which is hereto an-
nexed,) & as the Agent of said Corporation.

Randolph Rogers
Jacob Bigelow

[stamp: green star]
[stamp: Cemetery Seal at bottom right: Sic Panditur Via Immortalitatis]