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XII.] shall be less than one-fourth of the diameter of the piece.

For the sided timber (Fig. 17), it is also agreed that the price is to be, for each log measuring—

the conditions being that in computing the measurement

FIG. 17a.

FIG. 17b.

for payment of sided timber, no quarter-inches to be allowed in the sidings. All the timber to be so sided that, between the wanes, at half the length of the piece, there shall not be less than the siding with one-eighth