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In pursuance of this arrangement between the said Parties,
which was verbal and never reduced to writing, [M^r Judson]
proceeded with his labor in constructing and drafting the said
Map. which was completed in Manuscript and ready for
delivery at the close of the Legislative Assembly's Session
at [Burlington] in the month of June 1838.

At this last mentioned time a new arrangement and
agreement was made between the said [Slaughter] and [Judson]
to the following effect, the same still being verbal and never
reduced to writing.

[Leander Judson] agreed to proceed to the East for the
purpose of having the said Map [lithographed?] or engraved
and to superintend the work of the same until finished.

[William B. Slaughter] agreed to furnish [Judson] with
moneys, from time ot time to pay all the expenses attending
the completion of the said work.

In pursuance of all the above stated agreements
and arrangements between the said Parties, [M^r Judson]
left [Burlington] about the 1^st of July 1838 and proceeded to
Cincinnati, where an Engraver was employed, and a
contract entered into between [Leander Judson] on the
part of the said Secretary of the Territory, and the said
engraver, to perform the necessary work, at a stipulated price.

This agreement with the Engraver was afterwards con-
-firmed by the said Secretary, and when the work was
completed, the Engraver was fully paid by the Constituted
Authorities of the Territory of Wisconsin, including the sum
of Three Hundred Dollars which had been paid to him during
the progress of the said work, by [Leander Judson], out of the
moneys which were furnished from time to time to said
[Judson] by said [Slaughter] according to the said agreements.

[Leander Judson] remained in Cincinnati from the
beginning of July until November 1838, superintending the
said work, and when it was finished he returned to the
Territory, bringing with him as many of the Maps as were