Volume Eight - Pre-Victorian to the present day - more aspects - To dredge the River Ely - 1860's

I hereby Tender to execute the work described in the Specification annexed hereto, and in the accompanying Drawings, according to that Specification and those Drawings, for the sum of £ 1,084.0s.0d and I agree that there shall, as the case may be, be an addition to, or deduction from the above stated sum, at the rate of 1s/- per Cube Yard, for any additions to, or deduction from the Contract Quantities, if any such shall use by consequence of alterations of the work of the Engineers - and I further agree to lengthen the Wooden Trunk? (could be Trestle?) through the Sea Embankment, as shall be directed, for Fifteen Shillings per lineal Yard. The said Trestle to be made of 3 inch Plank - to be 1 foot six inches square and tarred with Stockholm Tar.