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try to persuade all to do so), they find the stipulation in the agreement, that they "shall furnish all necessary proof required to sustain said claims on the expense of said Beaman Barling & Davis."

This paragraph gives rise to the question whether B. B. & D. are to pay preliminary costs or only such as may arise upon the procurement of such additional proofs as B. B. & D. may require.

If I am to seek payment from the parties, it is obviously proper to ask it at once, but if B. B. & D. are to pay them I have no occasion