Gentlemen,
    In accordance with your verbally expressed desire we submit herewith
a proposition for removing the heating boilers from the State House Building
to the situation designated or accompanying plans in the Cellar of Record
Building, and to construct a flue of sufficient dimensions in that building to
give proper drafts to boilers, and construct a brick trench, of the dimensions shown on the drawings, from the Record Building, and to connect the boilers together and to the apparatus in State House by means of Cast flow and return pipes of the dimensions and situated in the position shown upon the drqwings: to fill in the excavations in State House Building, which will be left vacant by the removal of the boilers, pave over these places and make the necessary repairs to the pipes that have been broken by frost for the sum of, Thirty-four hundred dollars ($3400.00/100)
    This extimate, although somewhat in excess of the amount which Mr. Hayward thought the work would cost without making a calculation, is the amount that the work will actually cost as without a particle of allowance for profit.
    We are moved to make this proposition in consideration of the interest we take in any work erected by us, and because it is absolutely necessary to adopt some positive method to insure a successful draft to the boilers, as in their present position the boilers are rendered inoperative by sudden unfavorable conditions of the wind, which is due to the positions of the wind, which is due to the positions of the smoke shafts.  And we furthermore make this proposition with the understanding that your Honorable Board has not the funds to meet the cost of the work, but that you will recommend the same to the Legislature for an appropriation for the discharge of the debt.
    We take upon ourselves