406 Assembly Proceedings, May — June 1674.

Liber
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wide and seven foote high and the windoes of the said story
two foote & halfe wide & five foote high with double lights
to be divided with a Transome att two thirds of their height
which said windoes in the second story shall be eight in num-
ber as in the first story directly over the windows of the first
story besides one in the second story in the Porch of the same
demensions with those in the Chambers of the second story
that there be three particons in the second story as the Gouer-
nour shall direct the said particons double Lathed and plaistred
the floores to be laid with quartered planck inch & quarter
thick after plained either good white Oke or Pine of this
Countrey sawen while the Turpentine is in them the doores all
bottened with good substanciall hinges Spring stock locks &
Latches two Iron Casements to every window in the said house
the frames and Casements to be well laid in Lynseede Oyle
according to art and glased with good Cleer square glasse, the
summers and Girders for the floores to be sixteene & twelue
Inches square the lyce six and four Inches square standing
twelve Inches a sunder the wall plates all round the house porch
and Staire Case to be twelue and seven Inches square the
Rafters Eighteene foote & halfe long standing twelue Inches a
sunder with six paire of principalls and double purloines framed
in even with the Rafters & to be morticed in & every paire of
Principalls to be braced in & every paire of Rafters to haue
two buttoned braces to the Collor beame every paire of Princi-
palls to be tenn & Eight Inches square the purloines six Inches
square the small Rafters four and three Inches square to be
topped with mortice and Tennant and pinned att head & hipp
tenanted att the foote the Laths for the tile of heart of white
Oke & one Inch thick the principall Rafters of the porch &
staire Case to be seven & five Inches & the feete of the Rafters
to Jett over a foote & halfe on each side with Basboards att
the Gable Ends & Piramedes the whole house to be well
plaistered within & the Roofes well sealed & the walls well
pointed without with good lime the said Prison to be Substan-

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cially built of Stone or brick laid in lime & sand twenty four
foote long in the Cleer within & fifteen foote wide within Nine
foote high to the plate and a particon in the midle with a floore
below paved with flatt Stone or Brick and another aboue laid
with planck and Covered with tile laid in morter with Sufficient
locks barrs and windowes fitt for a prison the said state house
and prison to be Compleate & ended by the Last day of Octo-
ber which shall be in the yeare of our Lord God 1676 And for
the building of which State house and prison Bee itt Enacted
by the Authority aforesaid and with the aduice and Consent
aforesaid that there be Leavyed by the Gouernour and Coun-
cill by an Equall Assessment vppon the taxable persons of the