The Proposals of John Skinner to His Excellency the Governor and Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for making a part of the Commonwealth’s Road.

If it please your Honors to confirm the Commonwealth’s Road as laid out from Shippensburg thro’ Clark’s Gap, or otherwise, through the said Gap to the burned Cabins, the abovesaid Skinner will undertake to make the said Road good and sufficient for a Waggon and four good Horses to draw twenty hundred weight across the mountains either ways, that is from the East side of Clark’s Gap to the said Cabins, for six hundred pounds in Gold or Silver of Current Money with the Merchants of the said Commonwealth on the following Terms, that is to say, that the Road shall be twelve feet wide on the sides of the Hills or among the Rocks, and not less than twenty feet wide on the other gound, and room shall be made for not less than three waggons to draw off to the one side in the narrow places, at a convenient distance for others to pass by and the waters to run next to the Hill side of the Road, the whole to be done by the 25th day of Novermber, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eithy-seven or sooner if the weather permit to Work; provided that the said Skinner be allowed a discretionary power to vary on either side of the Road, as as to get a Convenient ground for a good Road, saving the distance as nearly as possible, and he be supplied with one-third or more of the Money this fall, so as to be able to get in beef and Pork this Season, and another third when the work is half done, and the remaining third when the Road is done and finished as above