The Arkansas advocate., 1836-09-02
= TuE PLAN OF A GOAL.

The whole house to be thirty feet by twenty, n the clear; the foundation to be two feet deep Ill the ground well raised foot above ground With good fock the whole wall above the foundations to be ef well burnt brick laid in good lime morar the part o the house de
 signed for the dungeon room must be divided rom 1e
 leTs room by partition wall across the house, cutting oil twelve feet in the clear off one end the house. winch to he entirely surrounded by double wall of hck, eighteen inches thick with space of one foot between the walls which is to be filled with he@n timbe square set on end and flat rocks put edgeways, as high as the first story
 which will be nIne feet between floors; the lower floor
 must be laid with two tier of foot square heWn tmber
 laid one foot in the wall at each end laid one tier the other and then oored with two inch oak plank na
 cd down with spikes, and filled with tenpenny nails ns to render possible bore cut the oor the up per floor to be laid in like with tier of hewed timber foot square and Hoored top in the same manner with two nch plank, spikes and nails there must be oor o foot square hewed timber, over the upper room which room Is designed for the debtors room; the dungeon room to have one window at each sde eighteen inches square to have two tier o gates, made of two inch squire bars Of iron crossed two inches apart and made substantially fast timbers fst ened in the wall and faced with large tt bars of iron, through which the grate bars must Pass the whole ba lance of the wall, except the dungeon room, to De single wall o brick, eighteen inches thick, with two twelve light windows and doors in the fore part of the ailers room, and two windows above in the room, of the size, with chimney the end of the jailers room, with fire place above and below built up wall Of tae house, with good upper and lower oor and stlirs go up the upper oor also win dows of twelve panes in tue debtors with tier of grates the inside made of inch bars of iron four inches between the crosses fastened and secured in the that the grates of the dungeon are; all the windows of the alers and debtors to be neatly finished off with shutters sash and glass; the doors to be neatly finished off and shutters and locks them the whole of the building to be well covered in with roof of eighteen inch shingles, inch thick at the thick end, four inches wde nailed as to show six inches of the shingles of each course which roof be completely pitched painted, when fnished the dungeon room to have door, which shall go of the allerS and the said shall he substantial oak timber, well fastened and let into the wall, and faced with large bars of iron that 1t neither be bored; there must be shutters the door, made of two inch oak plank crossed and nailed together with iron spikes and lined both sides with sheet iron well and strongly nailed with tenpenny nails, with substantial wrought iron hinges, and first quality locks of the strongest kind the debtors have door, securely made and well hung on good wrought iron hinges, with good lock; the whole of the outside work of the goal to be neatly painted of with white lime.