The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1837-04-05
collared with sheet lead and shingled. On

the top of each tower 10 be deck eleven
and half feet in diameter, OF three inch
pianks free from sap, on which IS to be iaid
iarred sheathing-paper and that covered
with copper thirty ounces To tile square
foot, the copper To be web secured To the
decks, and so brazed or secured together as
to make the decks tight, in one side Of the
decks IA small scutlle tweniy-four inches by
twenty, 10 enter the lanterns, the scuttle
doors to be made of double boards and
covered with copper same as the decks; tho
frames and rabbets ulso 10 be covered with
copper, .one window in the upper story Of
each tower, twelve lights seven by nine lass.
a sufficient number Of steps to lead from
the attic chamber of tho house to the en-
trunce of the scutiles, with good hand rails;
the stairs, summers, and floors to he hard
pine, clear of sap; the stairs and floors 10
be Of two inch plank and paned; scuitles
to enter the towers from the chambers.
| On the top of the towers, to be iron Ian
terms of octagon forms, the posts To In two
inches square, and to pass through the deck
four feet aud secured To the posts SHh iron
bolts well riveted, or with nuts. The hcighs
and diameter oliihe lanterns to he suffi-
cicnt To admit into each ociagon an irou
sash To contain twenty one lights twelve by
eleven, the sashes To he iron capped, I"
be glazed with glass of double thickness
from the Boston glass munufactory, tho
lower tier to be filled with copper, the rsb-
bets of the snshes To he three quarters of al
iGch deep; in one Of the octagons of each
lantern to be nm iron framed door covered
with copper, five feet by two in the clear 10
e shut tghlinto rabbe,s with Strong irou hinges
=. and turn batlons, aud in one or two other
h of the octugons the sashes to be filed with
T. copper sheets instead of glass il so required.
;, 1 he top of each lantern 10 be domS
> formed nv sixteen iron rahers of proper
Il dimensions, but sufficiently large, concep-,
irating in mn iron hoop five inches wide and
nine inches diameter, covered with copper
!. thirty two ounces to tho square foot, which
y is to come down aud rivet into tie pieces
'thnt form the top of the sash hich are II
be three inches wide
On each dome to be a travcrsing vcniIln-
tor, thirty inches long ana fifteen ii,chcs
diameter, on which is To be secured u vone
three feet long aud twenty inches wide.
The ventilators and vnnes Ia he framed with
iron and covered with copper. Around the
lanterns to be ron iailngs, the posts OF
which to be ono and three eigh,hs inch
square connected by three IRON ratings ono
inch square ! the railing posts 10 run up
lparaliel with the caves f,he lanterns and 'he
upper ratings to be four feet from the deck
The lanterns to be constructed and finish
cd in the best aud most approved manner.
The wood work oflhe towers, the lapterns.
vcntilators aud vancs To be psinted twice
over, all the iron aud copper work black,
the putty on the sashes and woodw ork Whit,
to have one complete electrical conductor
made from copper, three quarters ofan incA
diameter, e. painted the points silver. 10
extend five feet above the vane, and five
feet from the house, into the ground sufi-
. cent depth. A square, Eve feet, out build
nc, of wood, To be erected, six feet high;
framed with two pieces oftuber each twelve
feet long aud crossing at the centre /; and '1
he covered with boards and shingles and
: wbitewashed throue h-out. The whole te
be completed in workmanlikc msnnerby
: the first day OF September next.
i Separate proposals will he received for
(iting up the said light houses, within MI
., teen days after they shall he built. whh sew
/, en- pa,cn, lamps and seven sixteen incl, re-
, fioctors, in sach lantern, 10 hc placed ~
two circles, four OIL the lower and three or!
>. tho upper tin butts hr keeping oil, and
! all the necessary npporarntus in The sah'.
/, manner as tho light houses OF Ihe United
! States have been fitted by Winslow Lewis,
!: with tho addition Of The patent apparatus
G for Conducting the heat of The lamps 10 ms
oil therein tie said refcctors to have ssV-
=, en- ounces and twelve penny weigh: pure
silver in each reflector. The whole =" DO
auproycd by the Superintendent OF Light
;. houses in Rhode island, or such other per-
I. son ms may bs designated by him. In the
y proposas for building, the terms to be sis-
;, ted for building the dwelling house wna
|. Inrd-buro, bricks IN lieu Of split undressed
;. stones; walls of eighteen, instead OF twenty
Copr inches in case ,hi, mode should DO
pr.ferrcd. tho use of salmon and other 'n-
. ierior bricks will be prohibited. Payment
; TO be made when the WORK shall bs CONT
:, p'eied and approved.
j Those who are disposed to co'hfaetf wan
:, pI,,se transmit their proposals TO the Col
jec,or Of tl,s Customs Mt Newport, on or be-
fore the fiiicenil, dry of April next.
WM LITTLEFlELD, Coli
s,.,'r Itcur HOUSES.