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Flooring and Scaffolding. — The floor to be laid with hem- 

 lock boards and two iuch pine plank — that for the drive-way 

 to be of a uniform width of twelve inches. The scaffold floors 

 to be laid with two thicknesses of hemlock boards ; all the 

 boarding of the floors to be nailed with ten-penny Tremont 

 nails, and the planking with forty-penny Tremont nails , in all 

 cases pains to be taken in laying the floors to break joints, and 

 to lay the boards and planks as closely as possible. 



Inside Finish. — Three stalls for horses, to be built of mill- 

 planed spruce, with crib and hay-rack according to the direc- 

 tion of the Committee, with a suitable partition between the 

 stalls and the barn floor-way, and a sliding door to separate 

 them therefrom ; the floor of the stalls to be laid of two inch 

 pine plank, according to the direction of the Committee ; stairs 

 to be constructed leading to the scaffold. 



Tie- Up for Cattle — to be constructed the length of one side 

 of the barn, with floors, and ties, and trap-doors, according to 

 the direction of the Committee. 



Meal Room and Calf Fen — to be constructed according to 

 the direction of the Committee. 



Fainting. — All the clap-boards to be painted one coat of 

 lead and linseed oil ; the trimmings and doors to be painted 

 two coats of first quality lead paint and linseed oil ; color, &c., 

 according to the direction of the Committee. 



CONTRACT. 



An agreement, of two parts, made this 6th day of March, 

 in the yf ar one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, between 

 Geo. B. Loring, Charles P. Preston, and Royal A. Merriam, a 

 Committee appointed by the Essex Agricultural Society, for 

 the purpose of building a barn on the Treadwell Farm in 

 Topsflcld, on the one part, and John H. Potter of Topsfield, 

 on the other part, as follows, viz : — 



That I, the said Potter, shall, at my own cost and charges, 

 provide all and every kind of materials and of the best quaU 



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