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242 CONDITIONS OF CONTRACT.

1.—All the goods supplied under this contract to be imported direct from the Baltic; to be fresh cut, good, sound, merchantable, well conditioned, and subject to the approval of the Receiving Officers of the respective dockyards.

2.—The Dantzic Fir timber to be n inches square and upwards, meeting at 24 feet, and none to be shorter than 18 feet; the longest timber to be of the greatest scantling, and the spine to be seen from the butt to the top of each of the four sides. The whole to be fresh cut, and to be delivered in the following proportions of quality, viz.—60 per cent, to be best middling quality, 20 per cent, to be good middling quality, and 20 per cent, to be common middling quality. The common middling quality is not to exceed 13 inches square.

3.—The Dantzic Deals for decks of 4 inches thick to be not less than 9 inches in breadth; to average 8½ inches in breadth clear of sap, not any to be under 7 A inches, and to be 26 to 40 feet in length, averaging 33 feet. The Deals of 3½ inches, 3 inches, and 2½ inches thick to be not less than 9 inches in breadth, and to be not less than 7½ inches in breadth clear of sap, and 25 to 35 feet in length, averaging 30 feet. The Deals of 2 inches thick to be not less than 8½ inches in breadth, and to be not less than 7½ inches in breadth clear of sap, and 20 to 30 feet in length, averaging 25 feet. All the Deals to be delivered in the proportion of not less than 70 per cent, crown quality, and the remainder crown brack quality, to be clean, sound, yellow wood, converted in the country, of an equal thickness and square edged, and to be clear of sap, shakes, injurious knots, and defects.

4.—The Dantzic Deals for stages to be 2 inches thick, from 12 to 15 inches broad—the sap on the two edges not to exceed one-half of the breadth—and from 25 to 35 feet long, averaging 30 feet. The whole to be clean, sound, yellow wood, converted in the country, of an equal thickness and square edged, and to be clear of shakes, injurious knots, and defects.

5 —The Dantzic Oak thickstuff of 4½ inches thick, and planks of 4, 3½, and 3 inches thick, to meet at 32 feet, and none to be shorter than 24 feet, and to be from 10 to 13 inches broad, averaging 11 inches, clear of sap. The whole to be fresh, clean, free from defective wanes, cut regular, square edged and straight; the breadth for measurement to be taken clear of sap at the middle of the length; and 67 per cent, of each to be of first or crown quality, and the remainder of second or crown brack quality.

We occasionally obtain from Dantzic some Fir timber, which is known in the London market under the names