The Arkansas advocate., 1836-09-16
THE PLAN OF A GOAL.

The whole house be thirty feet by twenty, in the clear the foundation to be two feet deep n the ground well raised one foot above ground, with good rock the whole wall above the foundaton to be of well burnt brick laid good lime mortar the part of the house de- signed for the dungeon must be divided from the lers room by partition wall the house. cutting off twelve feet the clear off end the house. which to be entirely surrounded by double wall of brick eighteen inches thick with space of foot between the walls, which is to be filled with hewn mber square, set end, and fiat rocks, put in edgeways high the first story which will be nine feet between foors the lower floor must be laid with tier of foot square heWn timber laid one foot in the wall at each end laid tier the other and then oored with two inch oak plank nail ed down with spikes and filled with tenpenny nails render 1t impossible to bore the hoor the up per floor to be laid in like with tier of hewed timber one foot square, and foored top in the manner, with two inch plank, spikes and nails; there must be floor, of foot square hewed timber, the upper room, which is designed for the debtors room the dungeon room Is to have window each sde eighteen inches square, have two tier of grates, made of two inch square bars of iron, crossed two inches apart and made substantially fast in tmbers fast ened in the wa and faced with large fiat bars of iron through which the gate bars must pass; the whole ba lance of the wa except the dungeon room, Is to be single wall of brick, eighteen inches thick, with two twelve light windows and doors the fore part of the jaiers room, and two windows above in the same room of the size, with chimney at the end o the Jaers room, with fire place above and below, built up with the wall of the house, with good upper and lower hoor and stairs to to the upper oor also two W1 dows of twelve panes tue debtors room, with one tier o grates the inside made of inch bars of iron four inches between the crosses fastened and secured in the same manner that the grates of the dungeon are; all the windows of the aers and debtors rooms to be neatly finished off with shutters sash and glass; the doors to be neatly finished off, and shutters and locks to them; the whole of the building be well covered in with roof of eighteen inch shingles, inch thick at the thick end four inches wide, nailed to show SIX inches o the shingles of each course which roof must De completely pitched painted, when finished; the dungeon room to have door, which shall go out ol the Jaer room and the facing of said door shall be o substantial oak timber, well fastened and let into the wa and faced with large bars of iron, so that it can neither be cut nor bored there be two shutters the door, made of two inch oak plank crossed and nailed together with iron spikes and lined on both sides with sheet iron well and strongly nailed on with tenpenny nails, with substantial wrought iron hinges and first quality locks of the strongest kind; the debtors room te wrought hinges with good lock- the whole of the outside work of the goal to be neatly painted off wtI white lime.