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| | |style="text-align:center;" |Pages 28 to 29 not yet transcribed'''Ballasting'''|-| || After the work of excavation and embanking shall have been completed the Contractor shall remove all temporary railway meterials and ballast and shall clean up and perfect the formation and drainage according to the drawings, and when the formation shall have thus been properly prepared and approved by the Engineer the bottom ballast shall be laid down to the thickness of one foot and to the width & form shewn on the enlarged cross section of the line. It shall consist of strong blast furnace cinders slag rough gravel or rock broken to a size capable of passing through a 4 inch ring or such hard and dry material as the Engineer may approve. The permanent way shall then be laid and securely packed up and boxed, the top ballast being of the same material as the bottom ballast but broken to pass through a 2 inch ring No sand will be allowed to be used on any consideration whatever nor material containing any admixture of clay or soil.
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