1855-12-31 Otis Statue: Contract with Thomas Crawford (page 3)

[stamp: embossed upper left corner]

statue & pedestal are not so delivered to said Corpora-
tion, as aforesaid, within said term of three years
& six months, the said Crawford shall have no claim
upon said Corporation for any sum then remaining un-
paid to him, nor any claim for or on account of his
services rendered in the matter as above more specif
ically set forth._

In witness whereof the said Crawford
hath hereunto set his hand & seal on the day of the
date of this instrument, & on the same day, the said
Corporation hath hereunto set its common seal & caused
these presents to be signed by its President, Jacob Bigelow,
who acting herein assumes no personal responsibility

in the premises, & acts exclusively & only under the vote of
the Trustees of said Corporation (an attested copy of which
is hereto annexed?.) & as the agent of said Corporation._

Tho Crawford

Jacob Bigelow

[green stamp and seal of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn]

At the regular monthly meeting of the Trustees of
the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, holden
in Boston, on the sixth day of November A.D. 1854, it was

"Voted, that the President be instructed & authorized in
the name and behalf of this Corporation, to contract with some
suitable artist, to be selected by him, for a statue of James
Otis, in marble, the cost of which shall not exceed five
thousand dollars."_

Attest Austin J. Coolidge
Secretary of the Corporation