expenditure in printing the first volume and the Chronological Table and in binding the completed Volumes.
2.
In view of the fact that it appeared from dispatch No. 414 of the 11th September, 1900 that the cost of the work would be $3549.35, it seemed to me that $2,770 was an excessive charge for the work proposed. The case was referred to Messrs. Noronha & Company, Messrs. J. Cannington explained at an interview at this office, that he had intended to propose, in his letter of the 13th October, that Messrs. Noronha and Company should be paid pro-rata for the proportion of work done by them on their original contract of about $3,569.35, and should perhaps receive a small bonus of $200 in consideration of their expenditure in special labour.
3. I accordingly telegraphed on the 29th enquiring whether Messrs. Noronha and Company would be willing to accept release from their original contract on the