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When the cupola is finished, the trimmings finished, and the 

 inside finished, $300. 



And the balance of $225 within thirty days of the time 

 when the whole job is completed, and so delivered up to the 

 entire satisfaction of the said Committee. 



In witness whereof the parties have hereunto set their hands, on 

 the day and year above written. 



GEO. B. LORING, ) 



CHAS. P. PRESTON, V Committee. 



R. A. MERRIAM, ) 



Witness, ARTHUR M. MERRIAM. 



JOHN H. POTTER. 



The work was done in a thoroughly satisfactory manner by 

 Mr. Potter. 



The lumber used by him was as follows : — Square timber 

 for frame, mostly pine, obtained in Boxford, 18,000 feet. The 

 scafi'old beams, between the posts, are spruce ; joists in the 

 frame, 5,000 feet; hemlock boards, 13,000 feet; spruce for 

 cattle and horse stalls, 2,000 feet ; pine for finish, 2,500 feet ; 

 shingles, 27,000 ; spruce clapboards, rough, 4 feet long, 2,500 ; 

 pine plank for flooring, 5,000 feet. 



In addition to the contract price of eleven hundred and 

 twenty-five dollars, the Committee have paid Mr. Potter one 

 hundred and twenty-five dollars and five cents, for removing 

 and repairing a portion of the old barn, and altering the finish 

 of the new one. They have also paid twenty dollars for a 

 weather-vane ; six dollars for drawing plans, etc. ; and eight 

 dollars for posts to cellar. There remains on hand of the thir- 

 teen hundred and twenty-seven dollars appropriated by the- 

 Society, a balance of forty-two dollars and seventy cents. It 

 is important that an open shed, costing one hundred dollars, 

 according to Mr. Potter's estimate, should be constructed, run- 

 ning from the new barn to the removed portion of the old 



