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may impair the good quality ior the purpose lot
which il is required to be got out straight the
siding way, and by sweep curving inches IN
As feet the moulding way.
CLASS No. 2.
Locust timber.
500 cubic feet Long Island Locust timber,
lengths not less than 10 feet to average II inches
diameter, not less than III inches, TO be of the best
quality, free from all defects.
: pieces Yellow Locust timber IL cubic feet, L.
Island feet each, % inches diameter.
8 pieces Yellow Locust timber, 81 cubic feet, L.
Island feet each, X IL inches diameter,
30 pieces Yellow Locust timber, $50 cubic feet, L.
Island, IL feet each, X 9 inches diameter
CLASS No. 3.
YELLOW Pine timber.
10000 cubic feet Southern Yellow Pine plank
stock.
10000 cubic feet Southern Yellow Pine promis-
cuous timber.
The "plank stockn to be ia length not less than
35 feet, averaging As feet halt to square II inches
and half to square IA inches and upwards at the
top end of the sticks; be of the best quality, long
leaf fine grain free from heart shakes, wind shakes,
and all other defects; to be hewed to q fair edge
and to have no more sap than one-elghth OF the
breadth of the face from each corner, and the Gu
bcal contents of all sap to be excluded IN the
measurement of the timber
The ''promiscuous timber" to be in lengths not
less than 80 feet, to average 40 feet, to square Ia
inches and upwards at the top ends, averaging l6
inches square to be of the best quality, long leat
fine grain, free from heart shakes, wind shakes
and all other defects to be hewed to fair edge, ac-
cording to the growth of the tree, and to have no
more sap than of the breadth of the face from
each corner and the cubcal contents OF all the sap
to be excluded in the measurement OF the TIMBER
proportion of the above timber may be hewcd
with fair curve of inches spring one way OF the
stick
The aforesaid oplank stocks'' and ''promscuous
tmbesA must be felled between the LIST of October
and the LIST of March, and must have grown within
60 miles of the sea COAST must be stripped OF the
bark, or hewed within 20 days after it is felled and
placed clear of the ground.
CLASS No. 4.
Spar timber.
yellow pine sticks, or 267 cubic feet of spar TIMBER
SO feet long, Is inches parallel.
yellow pine sticks, or 2l0 cubic feet of spar TIM
Der, as feet long, Is inches parallel.
yellow pine sticks, or OBS cubic feet of spar tim
Der, 70 feet long, 25l inches from butt.
yellow pine sticks or 1919 cubic feet of spar tim
Der, IS feet long, % inches ! from butt.
yellow pine sticks, or 46S cubic feet of spar tim
Der, SO feet long, 10 inches from butt.
yellow pine sticks, or 3S4 cubic feet of spar tim
Der, AZ feet long 10 inches from butt
yellow pine sticks, or lat cubic feet of spar tim
ber 81 feet long, l6 inches from butt
yellow pine sticks, or 968 cubic feet of spar TIM
Der, 70 feet long, % inches parallel.
yellow pine sticks, or S74 cubic feet of spar tim
Der, Is feet long, % inches parallel.
All of the above Yellow Pine spar timber is to be
of the best quality, free from heart shakes wind
shakes and all other defects to be hewed to fair
edge, and to have no more sap than l-6 of the
breadth of the face from each corner. Those
pieces marked az from butt" ale for yards, and
must be the same at the butt and lined full towards
the end, which be tapered off, the large pieces
to IA inches and the smallest to ii inches-by the
cubic foot.