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(i)seventy-five percent (75%) of the net amounts received in United States currency from the Publisher from the sale of First Serial Rights.

(j)Seventy-five per cent (75%) of the net amounts received by Publisher (after deduction, from such net amounts, of agent's commission, if any, on the sale) from the sale of rights covering Motion Picture (sight and/or sound), Dramatization and/or Stage, Presentation, Radio, Broadcasting, Television, Mechanical Voice Rendition and Voice Recordings of the text.

(k) A total average of Fifteen Hundred Dollars ($1500.00) against all moneys accruing under this Agreement, payable to Elisabeth McCausland in ten (10) monthly payments of One Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150.00) beginning November 1st, 1956. After the total advance has been earned the next Fifteen Hundred Dollars ($1500.00) earned by the Work shall be payable to Violet Organ, and further earnings shall be divided fifty per cent (50%) to Violet Organ and fifty per cent (50%) to Elizabeth McCausland. 

FIFTH: Royalty accounts shall be computed semi-annually to the thirtieth (30th) of June and the thirty-first (31st) of December of each year, and statements thereof shall be rendered and the amount shown due thereby paid on or before the following thirty-first (31st) of October and thirtieth (30th) of April respectively, except that from two years after publication, royalty statements and royalty payments shall be made only once every year, on the thirtieth (30th) of April. 

SIXTH: THE AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER AGREE THAT:

1. If for any annual period after two years from the date of first publication the sales of the Work do not exceed one thousand (1000) copies, the Author, to keep the Work in print and circulation, shall accept one-half (1/2) the first stipulated United States royalty percentage specified in clause 4(a) of section Fourth on such portion of the annual sales of one thousand (1000) copies or less, as are sold from a reprinting of two thousand (2000) copies or less. 

2. If the publisher finds itself with an overstock of the Work when, in its judgement, the demand for the Work would not use up this stock in a reasonable time, the Publisher shall have the right to sell such copies at the best price it then can in its judgement secure, and in case such overstock is sold at or below cost no royalty shall be paid the Author on such sales. 

3. If, at any time, it shall become necessary in the judgement of the Publisher to permit the return by the "trade" of unsold stock of said Work, any royalties on said returned stock previously paid to the Author shall be debited against the account of the Author. Where the Author has received in connection with any sales statement an overpayment of royalties or other sums, it is agreed that the Publisher may deduct the amount of this overpayment from any further royalties or other sums, whether payable on this or other books by the Author which may be published by the Publisher, it being understood, however, that the term "overpayment" does not apply to an unearned advance specifically agreed to as applying to one work. 

4. In case the Publisher fails to keep the said Work in print and for sale (but it is understood that the Work shall be considered to be in print if it is on sale in a cheap edition) and, after written demand from the Author, declines or neglects to reprint it within six (6) months and to offer it for sale, or if at any time after two (2) years from the date of first publication during the continuance of this agreement the Publisher wishes permanently to discontinue publication of the Work and shall notify the Author in writing of its desire and intention to discontinue publication, the Author for thirty (30) days thereafter shall have the right to buy from the Publisher all plats and stock, if any, at the cost of manufacture, and upon the failure of the Author to exercise this option or right by paying for the same in cash, within said thirty (30) days, the Publisher is to dispose of the said plates and stock as the Publisher sees fit without any royalty or percentage to the Author, and this agreement shall forthwith terminate, except with respect to Paragraph THIRD, clause numbered "5" thereof. The thirty (30) days shall run from the date of mailing such written notice, registered or certified mail, addressed to the Author at the address to which the last previous royalty statement was sent. 

5. If after publication of any edition of the Work the plates be rendered useless by fire or otherwise, the Publisher shall have the right of reproducing them or not; and if the Publisher declines to reproduce them the Publisher shall, upon written request from the Author, and after the sale of all copies of the Work remaining on hand, convey to the Author the copyright and all rights herein granted, and this agreement shall forthwith terminate, except with respect to paragraph THIRD, clause numbered "5" thereof. 

6. The Publisher may prosecute an infringement of the copyright, and if it fails to do so after written request by the Author, the Author may prosecute any such infringement. The