Assembly Proceedings, April 30-May 14, 1696. 293

Brought from the House of Burgesses by Major Hammond
Major Dorsey M^r Pollard and M^r Jenkins the following Mes-
sage and Report in relation to the State House viz^t

U. H. J.

Maryland ss:
At a Special Committee Appointed by the General
Assembly of this Province for inspecting into the further addi-
tion to the State House Met at the House of M^r Thomas
Blackwells this first day of May 1695

Present
Major John Hamond Chairman
Major Edward Dorsey
M^r Francis Jenkins
M^r John Pollard

Samuel Watkins Appointed by said Com Clk
The said Committee adjourned to treat with his Excellency
Adjourned for an Hour

Mett Again Present as before
1 It is Reported by this Committee to the said House of
Assembly that a method be taken for the Clerks to go up to
their Offices without going through the House of Assembly.
2 That a Law Pass or an Ordinance of Assembly be made
for seperate Rooms to be built in the State House for the
several Officers viz^t for the Provincial Office Land Office
Commissarys Office County Court Office and Clerk of the
Councils Office and a Bar be placed at the Door of each
Office within which no Person whatsoever shall come save the
Clerk and that no Clerk presume under a Certain Penalty to
Carry any Record Book or Publick Papers out of their respec-
tive Offices without commanded by his Excellency the Gov-
ernor or Assembly.
3 That two Jury Rooms be made and a Passage through
the middle of the House that the Offices be on one side and
the Jury Rooms on the other side
4 That at the end of the Passage be the Entrance into the
Porch Chamber
5 That a Bar be made for the Grand Jury to be kept
together
6 A Seat for the Cryer be made in some Convenient
Place in the State House
7. An Outward Bar for the Prisoners and a Step or two
for the Witnesses to be made
8. That a Chimney be Carried up at the other end of the
State House from the first Storey &c.

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