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[written in blue ink]

I will Build one or two as may be required
Boats for the service of sabel island taking the old
Boat from the Island as a model to Build by
Planking to be of 1/2 inch Pine timbers of [illegible]
coppor farsend througth and two coats of Pant
for the sum of [in three columns] 28 5 0
Each Boat

Planking and timbers as above
farstened throughout with galvernised iron
and two coats of Paint for the sum [in three columns] 26 7 9

Planking and timbers as above [illegible]
blow the gunel with coppor
gunneals [illegible] and nees and Bresthooks
to be farsend with aglvarnised Iron
for the sum of [in three columns] 27 15 10

the chirman of
the Board of Works
George W. Jackson
Dartmouth [27?] 1857
[wirtten in black ink in a different hand] (July)

[written in black ink, at bottom, in a different hand]
the first proposition is accepted—
[signature] S.S. Thorne
[date illegible: 2nd Aug.st?] /57

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