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run quarry four perch of light gray freestone, to be dehvered on the canaL 

 opposite Eighth street, and'be put up under the supervision of the archi- 

 tect one half in broken rubble masonry, the other in range work — finished 



exactly in the manner in which the said architect recommends ; that ihe 

 above styles, if adopted, should respectively be finished, so as to supply 

 a sample wall, to which, if the above material be adopted, reference may 

 be had in the contract. 



Mr. Seaton submitted a letter from I. Mudd, offering his services as 

 superintendent ; also, a letter from A. B. McFarlan, regarding the specimen 

 walls and Seneca freestone ; also, from the same, a draught of the quarries 

 in the vicinity of Seneca creek ; also, from the mayor of Baltimore, and 

 Mr. Long, architect, of that city, recommending Mr. Richard C. Murry 

 as superintendent:* also, from Mr. M. W. Carter, of Fredericksburg, re- 

 commending Seneca freestone, and offering his services; also from Mr. 

 John T. Bryant, recommending to purchase one of Mr, Lukins's clocks. 

 Philadelphia ; which letters, on motion, were 



Laid on the table. 



And, on motion, the committee adjourned. 



SEVENTH MEETING— March 15, 1847. 



Present, Messrs. Seaton, Hough, and Owen. 



Mr. Seaton submitted a letter from Robert Barnard, offering his ser- 

 ■idces as treasurer and accountant. 



Laid on the table. 



The chairman submitted a letter from Governor Francis Thomas, of 

 Marjdand, asking an additional examination of the quarry at Point of 

 Rocks, heretofore examined by Dr. Owen. 



Laid on the table. 



The chairman submitted from Mr. Samuel Worthington the following 

 offer to supply marble for the Smithsonian building : 



Baltimore County, March 13, 1S47. 



Gextlejien : I will agree to furnish the necessary white marble for the 

 erection of the above institution — say fiv^e thousand perch of rubble stone 

 of the size of good building-stone, carefully broken, and placed upon the 

 cars at Cockeysville — at the rate of one dollar and eighty-seven cents per 

 perch of twenty -five feet; or, at one dollar and twenty cents per ton, as 

 weighed by the railroad. 



I will agree also to furnish the dimension-stone in the block, and no 

 block to contain less than two cubic feet, at the rate of sixty cents per 

 cubic foot, and placed on the cars at the above-mentioned place ; or, by the 

 ton, at six dollars per ton as taken from the quarry, if the stone should be 

 wrought at the quarry, and the carved work completed there ; then, an 

 addition of fifty cents per ton will be charged on all stone so worked, to 

 be delivered say in the course of three years, or as may be required. 

 Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



SAM'L WORTHINGTON. 



Messrs. Robert Dale Owen, and others, 



Building Committee Smithsonian Institution. 



* Note. — March IG, letters and application withdrawn. 



