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Orders for Exportation executed on the BEST.TRMS.

SHEFFIELD AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY
CONTRACTS.
'THE following CONTRACTS on the above line will be
LET from sealed proposals in the order hereinafter
stated. _ .

The Plans, Sections, Working Drawings, Specifications,
and also the Drafts and Contracts, may be seen and copied,
and printed forms of Tendeft obtained, at the Offices of the
Company, or of the Engineer.
The line is distinctly trigged out on the ground, and branded
pegs set down at every chain length, and will be pointed out
by one of the Assistant-Engineers, if required.
The Tenders are to be delivered in sealed, and addressed
to the Secretary, at the Offices of the Company only.
No Tender will be entertained unless made and filled up on
one of the printed forms, nor unless the parties proposing, or
their representative, attend personally, and produce an un-
dertaking (on a form of letter which will be supplied, to be
properly filled up and) signed by two responsible parties,
engaging to become sureties, in the event of the Tender being
accepted.
The Directors will meet at Twelve o'clock at Noon, to
open the Tenders, and declare the lettings, upon each of the
days following those appointed for the delivery of the
respective proposals.

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N.B.—The remainder of the Contracts between the Sum-
mit Tunnel and Manchester will be ready for letting before
Midsummer.

The TUNNEL commences near Audenshaw Clough, about
a mile above Woodhead, on the Saltersbrook road to Sheffield,
and eighteen miles from Manchester, and extends into York-
shire to near Dunford Bridge, over the River Dun, six miles
above Peniston. The strata in the tunnel are peesumed to
alternate in rock and shale. The shafts and boreholes will
be let singly or otherwise.
The ARDWICK CONTRACT commences at the Junc-
tion with the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, near
Blind-lane, Ardwick, at the outskirts of the eastern side of
Manchestertand extends to near Gorton Reservoir, opposite
the Fairfield Walls, on the new road to Ashton-under-Lyne,
a distance of two and three-quarter miles. The work con-
sists of about twenty bridges, several culverts, an aqueduct
for the Stockport branch of the Ashton Canal, a great extent
of retaining walls, and about 180,000 cubic yards cf excava-
tion.

The CARLCOATES CONTRACT extends from the
eastern face of the tunnel, near Dunford Bridge, about a
mile down the valley of the river Dun. The work includes
some bridges and culverts, and the diversion of the river Dun
and the adjacent brooks. The excavation will go partly to
spoil. The above contract is situated six miles west of
Peniston, and about,eight miles south o' Huddersfield.
The HATTERSLEY CONTRACT extends from the
gravel pit near the turnpike road from Mottram, in Long-
dendal e, towards Stockport, to the west end of the Etherow
Viaduct at Old Broadbottom Brow, on the river Etherow,
dividing Cheshire and Derbyshire, and opposite Best Hill
Mill, being a distance of about one mile and fourteen chains.
The work includes several bridges, a short viaduct, and a
considerable extent, of retaining walls, and about 300,000
yards of earthwork, some of which ill go to spoil. The
above is situated nine or ten miles east of Manchester, and
about a mile south of Mottram.
The GAMESLEY CONTRACT extends from the east
end of the Etherow Viaduct to the west end of the great
viaduct at Dinting Vale, on the turnpike road, a mile below
Glossop, and about twelve miles from Manchester. This
work contains several bridges and culverts, and about 480,000
cubic yards of excavation.
Any further information may be obtained at the Offices of
the Company in Sheffield or Manchester ; or at the Office of
Mr. VIGNOLES, the Company's Engineer, No. 4, Trafalgar-
square, London ; at Mottram and at Tintwistle, in Cheshire,
on the road to Sheffield.

-order of the. Directors,
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
15, Piccadilly, Manchester, 24th April, 1839.

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