Agreement

It is mutually agreed, between Carnegie Museum 

of the City of Pittsburgh and W.H. Reed of Laramie Wyoming, that the

said W.H. Reed shall enter into the service of said Museum as 

field collector, his engagement to date from and his compensation

to be fixed upon the basis of the terms hereinafter set forth.



Said Reed is to receive compensation at the rate of $1800.

per annum, paid monthly.  But in case his engagement terminates by the end 

of the first year from the above date, he is to receive two hundred

dollars additional as salary, and in case he is at the time discharged

from the further service of the Carnegie Museum, and the reamins of the great

Dinosaur which he hereby undertakes to exhume should prove to be in 

such perfect condition as to permit the makeing of restoration of the skeleton 

equal in quality to that effected by the late Prof. O. C. Marsh, then the

said Reed is to receive as addtioanl compensation the further sum

of One Thousand Dollars in cash.  

If at any time after the expiration of the first year of service as a field-collector

for the Carnegie Museum before the expiration fo the second year

of service the said Trustees should see fit to discharge said Reed

then he is to recieve a further sum of $500.00 as henerarium annum,

for the discovery of the great Dinosaur, provided always,. that the reamins of this beast shall have proved good enough to effect from the restoration

of the skeleton.  Should the said Reed remain three years in the employemnt

of the Museum his salary shall stand at the figure fixed and no additonal 

payments shall be required, but he shall at the end of that time have

the right to acccept or reject form the Museum an offer to enter into

the service of the Museum as a Curator at an annual salary of $1,200

The Trustees of the Carnegie Museum agree to allow the said Reed fifteen

days of vacation in the summer months while in the field, and to

take annual fishing excursion at any time should he be called to the City of Pittsburgh to work in the Museum he is to have an additional period of 

vacation of ten days to allow him to visit friends and relative residing in the 

East.

The Carnegie Museum agrees to pay the railroad fares and hotel

bills of said Reed and assistants and allow for this for the first

year of this engagement the sum of $50.00

The Trustee of the Carnegie Museum agree to place at the disposal of said Reed a sum of money sufficient to pay the salary fo a boy for two and one half months during the summer of 1899 at the rate of $15.00 per month, and to pay the salary of two assistants at fifty dollars a month for three months during the summer of 1899 for their time and payments made them on account of salary.  The Trustees of the 

Carnegie Museum agree to pay the cost of toools, lumber, plaster, packing material and frieght on the same and the cost of material for a hut, the boards in which are later to be use in makeing