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the White, Corbin & Co., the Holyoke Envelope Company, the 
Plimpton Manufacturing Company, the Berlin & Jones Envelope 
Company, Samuel Raynor & Co., J. 0. Preble & Co., and Lewis 
J. Powers, doing business under the name of Powers Paper Com 
pany, parties of the first part, and the Standard Envelope Com 
pany, party of the second part. 
Witnesseth: i. The parties of the first part hereby severally 
agree that within fifteen days after the first day of each and every 
calendar month, beginning with the month of August next, they 
or it will render a sworn statement to the party of the second part, 
addressed to its treasurer, of the total number of thousands of 
envelopes they, the said parties of the first part, respectively, shall 
have sold and delivered during the previous calendar month, speci 
fying in said statement how many of the envelopes so sold and de 
livered by them or it, have been sold and delivered to any of the 
other parties of the first part named in this agreement. 
2. The parties of the first part hereby severally further agree to 
pay to the Standard Envelope Company, on the fifteenth day of 
the same month in which such statement is to be made, by the terms 
hereof, a tax of fifteen cents upon each and every thousand en 
velopes so sold and delivered by them or it, except upon the en 
velopes so sold and delivered by them or it to any of the other 
parties of the first part named in this agreement. This rate of tax 
may at any time be changed, by the written assent of any seven 
of the parties herein named as parties of the first part. It is under 
stood and agreed, however, by and between the parties to this 
agreement, that no monthly statement is to be required and no 
monthly tax is to be paid upon the envelopes which are excluded 
from the terms and operation of the written agreement, of even date 
herewith, between the Morgan Envelope Company and twelve 
other manufacturers of envelopes, parties of the first part, and the 
Standard Envelope Company, part 1 of the second part. 
3- Whereas said Standard Envelope Company, by written in 
strument, dated on or about April 30, 1887, has contracted with 
the firm of Lester & Wasley, of Norwich, Conn., for the purchase 
°f all envelope machines to be made or sold by them during the 
five years then next ensuing (said Lester & Wasley having therein 
agreed not to furnish more than twenty-four machines during any 
one year), the parties of the first part hereby severally agree to 
purchase of said Standard Envelope Company, and to pay therefor 
1 Thus in original.—Ed.