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Endorsement. The amounts which may from time to time become due and payable by the Contractors upon or by virtue of and according to the tenor of any such promissory notes as are mentioned in the contract dated the 27th June, 1872, made or purporting to bo made between Sir G. P. Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, by Isaac Earl Eeatherston, the Agent-General in London for New Zealand, and the Contractors, and a copy of which is hereto annexed, may be deducted from any moneys payable to the Contractors under this contract and these conditions. Note. —A printed copy of the contract referred to in the above endorsement, being " Articles of Agreement with Alessrs. Brogden for the introduction of Immigrants," dated 27th January, 1872, (Parliamentary Paper D. No. 19d., 1872,) is attached to the original of the Waitaki to Aloeraki contract, but is not reprinted here.

SCHEDULE OF PRICES.