Assembly Proceedings, May — June 1674. 405

straint of Malefactors & persons indebted the two houses of
your Lordships Generall Assembly Doe pray that itt may be
Enacted that there be a State house & a prison built att the
Citty of S^t Maries And Bee itt Enacted by the Right Hon^ble
the Lord Proprietary with the aduice and Consent of the upper
and lower houses of this present Generall Assembly and the
Authority of the same That there be a state house and Prison
built att the Citty of S^t Maries the said state house and Prison
to be built of brick or stone with lime & sand and to be
Covered with Slate or tile laid in Morter and to be of these
demencons (viz^t) the said State house to be two Stories high
and to Continue in length forty five foote from outside to out-
side with a porch in front sixteene foote Long and twelue foote
broad in the Clear on the Inside and a staire case over against
the Porch on the other side sixteene foote Square in the Cleere
on the inside the first story of the said house Porch and staire
Case to be twelue foote from the topp of the floore which shall
be paved with flatt paveing Stone or Brick to the lower side of
the summer and the second story to be Nine foote in the Cleere
from the upper side of the board to the lower side of the sum-
mer the walls of the said house Porch and staire case to be
built vppon a good secure and sound foundacon of twenty
eight inches thick from the bottom of the said foundacon to
the water table which shall be three foote Cleere aboue ground

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and made shelving of and The Rest of the said story to be
twenty four Inches thick upp to the first floore the walls of
the second story of the said house Porch and staire Case to be
Ninteene Inches thick upp to to the wale plate and soe from
the wall plate to the brest of the windows of the Garrett att
the Gable Ends and from the brest of the said windows upp
to the point of the Gable Ends fourteen Inches thick onely the
said Porch to haue an arch in front six foote wide in the Cleere
and Eleven foote high to the Keystone of the Arch with two
Arches on each side aboue the bentles and agate into the hall
of five foote wide and tenn foote high the Stairecase to haue a
door to open out of the hall of the same demensions and a
private doore to open into the garden of three foote wide and
six foote high vnder the first halfe pace of the staires which
staires shall be halfe pace Staires six Inches and a halfe riseing
& a foote in stepp for the first story, and six Inches riseing and
a foote in stepp for the second story all to be made of good
white Oke quartered Planck and a window vppon each halfe
pace the Inner doores of the first story of the said house to be
four foote wide Eight foote high as alsoe the windows of the
Hall which shall be Eight In number with double lights divided
with a transome att two thirds of the hight of the said win-
does the doores of the second story to be three foote & halfe

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