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Memorandum of an Agreement made this Thirtieth day of May Eighteen hundred and seventy-five by and between Thomas Donaldson and the United State Centennial Commission.

It is agreed that if the Smithsonian Institution, for the National Museum, shall pay to the said United States Centennial Commission, the sum of Eight Thousand and twenty-three dollars and one cent ($8,023.01) and also any additional charges or expenses that may be paid by said United States Centennial Commission on Minerals and Ores now in transit[[?]] and shall pay all expenses and charges hereinafter incurred by said Thomas Donaldson in completing said Cabinet as designed by him the whole expense not to exceed the sum of Twelve Thousand Dollars ($12000.00/00), currency, the the said collection shall be transferred