The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1823-03-28

| 3&X8&E will receive proposals until the LIST
Il day of April next, to furnish the
| following described timber, deive-
rable at the navy yard, at Washington, viz :
No I
26, 400 cubic feet of white oak or pine logs,
from 30 To 10 feet long, Tor longer If convent
ent), 90 be sided straight, 10 inches way,
| and as much the other way as they will hold ,of
parallel widths from end to end, no wanes 20
| be more than one fourth ofthe smallest siding,
or it will he sufficient that three sides he heweh,
letting the upper and lower sides shew faces Of
| not less than eight inches clear Of the wanes.
17O straight round white oak logs for ties, 81
feet long each, to I've 0inches diameter at the
| small end
81 srs,s i.s SQUARE do 90 feet long each, le
| by 10 inches, no waneS TO be more than one
! third OF the siding, leaving the face two-thirds
at least. No ..
42u pieces of heart pine straight square tim
Der, 10 side l6inches way, aud much the
| other way as they will hold, but not less than
III inches in lengths from % 60 90 feet, TO ave-
rage 81 feet, free from knots as possible, the
sap on the edges of the logs Doth edges includ-
ed) not to be more, in any instance, than one
fourth Of the smallest siding, of parallel widths
from end to end.
Ado do do 30 f. long, to square Is inches
3 do do do "a do 10 do pa
raliel widths from end to end.
1000 cubic feet do 80 to 10 f. long, sided l6
QUE WHNY Anu Us MUCH tut O'HeT way Us
the logs will i,ld, hut not less than ii inches
parallel widths from end to- end--the sap not
10 be more than one fourth Of the smallest si-
ding. No 3.
40 white oak logs, IS # long 15by in. so.
Z do 90 do 10 by IS do-to
be hewed straight, Of parallel widths from end
to end, no wanes TO he more than oDe-fourth
the siding one half the length, nor more than
one third or the other half
do 80 do 10 by 10 do
4 do 90 DO 10 by 10 do---straight
ii do IS do IA by ii do
40 do so do II by Ii do--to
I've hewed square and straight, of parallel widths
from end TO end, one third of the length TO be
free from wanes---on next third TO
he moe than fourth the siding and, on the
last third, no wanes TO be more than third
the siding.
$50 white oak logs, straight, so TO 40 feet long,
l2 by 10 inches, hewed square, three corners to
be free from waHeS hat, upon the fourth COR
ner, there may he waue not more than one
third the siding.
= do % feet hong, u nv "a inches
? do 20 do IL b. II do 30 he free from
wanes from end 10 eud, and straight, and Of
parallel widths.
IN ,To ~. - 0O
do % do Is by Is DO square, free from wsnes,
aud spring 10 inches in the whole length, b. a
fair curve
, DO 33 do i5hy Is do square, free from wanes,
spring 10 inches in the whole length.
% do 45 do Is by + 40 square, straight, OF
parallel width, free from wane one third of the
lenglh---tn next third, no wanes 10 be more
than one-third the siding I; and, on the last
third, not more ,han half the siding.
I72 round white oak logs - feet long each,
to he Ii inches diameter at the small end.
II square do do 2l feet long, IL
by Is IN hes, straight aud free from wanes.
$500 cubic feet white oak logs for plank, 80
to 40 feet long, II inches square, of parallel
widths from end TO end, as straight as can CON
venicutly be had, but no log to spring more
than 10 inches in the whole length, by an easy
and fair curve; no wanes to be more than one
fourth the siding,
Is heart pine logs, SO #. long, sided IA inf.
one way, and as much the other way as they
will hold, the shape Ieugthwise not material; the
Wauts not to be more than one-fourth the ST.
ding.
$500 cubic feet heart pine dc. 80 to 10 feet
long, straight, 10 inches one way, and as much
the other as they will hold the wanes to be
not more than ne-fourth the siding, (both
wanes included) and which is TO be unde TODD,
in all cases in relation TO wdnes.
Offers will be received for the whole of either
No |, 3 or No. 8, or for the whole bill Per-
sons Offering, will be pleased to state their price
per cubic foot. The delivery of the timber TO
completed as soon as il shall be required, which
will probably be by the LIST of August.
march Ia LIST April.
IL TO be published in the Norfolk Herald,
the Alexandria Herald, and the Baltimore Pat