lis                  THE OLD MERCHAJVTS
 

CHAPTER XVIII.

It was also agreed that the Greek agents should have
thirty days to sell one of the frigates, in order to redeem
the other from the clutches of the American merchants.

It was also agreed that the arbiters should be paid
for their services as arbitrators, cost, charges, commis¬
sion, Ac.

It was also stipulated that the arbitrators should sell
within ten days, one of the frigates of the Greek gov¬
ernment, if the Greek agent did not, out of which was
to be paid the balance due Le Roy, Bayard & Co. and
6. G. & S. Howland.

The arbitrators met for the first time on the 27th of
June, 1826.

Among the items passed as correct was a charge for
tho use of the two ship yards, $60,000! One was
that of old Bergh, up near Grand street and East river.
The ground of both could have been bought for that
sum ! This was sympathy for the Greeks. Christian
Bergh was a venerable looking man in his later years.
He was six feet two inches high, and his hair was as
■white as snow.    He has been dead some years.