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And all the battlements, labels, buttress caps, and all the remaining cut 

 work, will be executed in the most true and perfect manner. 



All the cut work hereinbefore specified, of every description, will be of 

 the form and dimensions and according to the plans furnished by the 

 architect. 



Contractors are referred to the following architectural works for the char- 

 acter of the different mouldings, capitals, and other ornaments, used in the 

 building. 



Doors, wmdoias, mid cloisters. — For capitals, bases, and plinths, see 

 MoUer's Denkmahler, part I, plate YI. Door of cathedral of Mnyeuce, 

 (A,) plate IX. Details of columns, cathedral of Mayence, (B,) plate XI. 

 Door of church of St. Leonard at Frankfort, (C,) plate XII. Door of the 

 sacristy of the cathedral of Mayence, (D,) plates XIV, XV, and XVI. 

 Details of the cloister of the church of Aschaffenburg, (E.) plate XVII. 

 Details of the church of St. Paul at Worms, (F,) plate XVIII. Details of 

 the doors of the transept at Frieburg cathedral, (G.) 



Also, Pugin and Le Keux's Normandy, plate V. 



Also, Glossary of Architecture, plate 28; St. Nicholas, Caeu, and St. 

 Peter's, Northampton. 



For coi-bel courses. — See Pugin and Le Keux's Normandy, plates 1, 10. 

 Than church, plate 1, and Glossary of Architecture, plate 37. 



For ornamented 'mouldings. — See Glossary of Architecture, all on plates 

 76, 77, and 78. Plate 79 — cable, intersecting and cable, nail-head, star, 

 lozenge and enriched lozenge. Plate 81 — reticulated, diamond frette, and 

 embattled frette. Plate 82 — trellis and hollow square. 



The above references are made with a view of presenting to the con- 

 tractor the general style for the finish and character of the ornaments. 



As the above specification, with the plans, is intended to cover the en- 

 tire completion of the building, in every respect, in the most perfect man- 

 ner, no extra claims will be allowed, unless caused by actual alterations in 

 the plans. And the contractor will be bound by the sum of $10,000 to 

 submit all questions, controversies, and claims to the architect, whose de- 

 cision upon the same shall be final and conclusive between the parties. 



iSpecificaiio?i of the carpenter^s and. Joiner^s work for the Smithsonian In- 



stitution. 



TIMBER. 



Basement story. — The floors of the basement of the west wing, and 

 west connecting range, will be supported on yellow pine timber, 3 by 12 

 inches, set two feet (2 ft.) from centre to centre. 



First story. — All ihe floors of the first story, except those of the chemi- 

 cal lecture room, students' working laboratory, front towers, campanile 

 tower, octagonal tower, and central rear tower, will be supported on 3 by 

 12 inch timbers, of the best white pine, set sixteen inches (16 in.) from 

 centre to centre. The girders into which these will be framed will be 

 twelve inches (12 by 12 in.) square. The trimmers and trimmer beams 

 will be 5 by 12 indies, and one trimmer will be placed at every hot-air 

 flue, or one at every pier in the wall of the building. There will be one 



