1855-12-31 Otis Statue: Contract with Thomas Crawford (page 2)

wharf in the City of Boston._ The statue when so
delivered, shall be whole & complete, & without fracture
or damage, & ready to be set in such place as said
Trustees shall designate.

And said Corporation agrees that when the said
marble statue shall have been so delivered, as aforesaid,
to said Corporation, that said Corporation will forthwith
relinquish all claim to said full sized plaster model
in due form to said Crawford._ But in case that
the said Crawford shall fail to complete, finish and
deliver to said Corporation as aforesaid, the said
marble statue within three years & six months from the
date of this agreement, the said full sized figure in
plaster, whether previously delivered, or not delivered,
shall be & remain the property of said Corporation, free
from any claim in said Crawford, or any other person
claiming under him. to the possession, use or improvement
of the same; and said Crawford shall have no
further claim upon said Corporation on account of
or by reason of this contract, or his services in any
way rendered in or about the said statue or model
figure, as aforesaid._

The said Corporation agrees to pay to
said Crawford, he doing & performing this contract
on his part, as above set forth, the sum of five
thousand dollars in two equal payments, as follows:
twenty five hundred dollars upon the completion &
conveyance of the full sized figure in plaster to said
Corporation, as aforesaid: - & twenty five hundred dollars
upon the final and full performance of this contract, &
the delivery of the said statue of James Otis, as
aforesaid, together with said pedestal, to said Cor-
poration, within the term of three years & six months
as aforesaid:_

Provided always, that if the said marble