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esi*rt0cl cm under the direction and management of
the said John Hayes at some convenient place in
the said city of Philadelphia which shall be
stiled and called the printing house or office
of John Dunlap and John Hayes.⁵

The partnership was to continue for three years, Dunlap
to provide the material for carrying on the work, which
materials were to be returned to Dunlap when the part-
nership should have ceased; and files of all the prints
made in the office were to be delivered monthly to Dun-
lap. ⁶ It is not clear from the wording of the contract,
whether Hayes was to submit the actual printed material,
or an inventory of such printing; but in either case,
It would be interesting to see one of those monthly
records, especially since not one issue of this Dunlap-
Hayes press has apparently survived.

At the termination of his contract with Dunlap,
John Hayes, then about twenty-six years of age, revived
the Maryland Gazette of Baltimore. He conducted it
alone from May 16 through October 24, 1783, then with
Jacob Allen Killen until April 3, 1784.

Killen, according to the terms of his contract
With Hayes for the dissolution of the partnership, was
responsible for the inventory. He listed the printing
materials as

5 columns of new long primer, size of the long
columns of the newspaper printed Feby 6, 1784,

5 Hayes, John. Contracts.
6 Ibid.