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and otherwise indicated by stakes. The contractor will be held re- 

 sponsible and must make good all damage caused by improper grades. 

 The contractor will notify the inspector when this staking out has been 

 done and will make such changes in same as may be required or sug- 

 gested by him. 



DRIVEWAY 



PREPARATION OF ROAD-BED 



The subsoil or other matter (be it earth, boulders, tree-stumps, etc.) 

 shall be excavated and removed to such depth as that, when the sur- 

 face is thoroughly compacted by ramming and rolling, it shall be left 

 inches below the finished grade. 



Should there be any spongy material in the bed thus prepared, all 

 such material shall be removed, and the space filled with clean gravel 

 or sand, and carefully rammed, so as to make all filling compact and 

 solid. 



Filling, if required, shall be composed of good, wholesome earth, taken 

 from the adjoining banks, or from where directed, and placed upon the 

 road-bed in layers, of not more than six (6) inches in depth, and thor- 

 oughly rolled and rammed. The embankment shall be maintained at 

 its designated grade until finally accepted and no allowance will be 

 made to the contractor for shrinkage or settlement. 



Wherever it shall be deemed necessary the exterior of the filling 

 shall consist of a stone wall as per drawing, along the sides of the road, 

 as shall be directed. 



FOUNDATION OF ROAD 



After the road-bed is properly prepared, sound, durable quarry-stones, 

 about 6 inches in depth, 3 to 6 inches in width, and 8 to 12 inches in 

 length, shall be laid by hand in form of a close, firm pavement, and the 

 various sizes properly distributed. They shall be set on their broadest 

 edges, without underpinning. The interstices are then to be filled with 

 pieces of stone and set with hammers in such a manner that the foun- 

 dation shall have an average depth of 6 inches. 



MACADAMIZING 



Upon this foundation a 3-inch thick layer of broken stone, li to 2 

 inches in diameter, is to be spread and thoroughly rolled, free from 

 clay or earth. 



