The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-16

PIT 1T UP FOR THE USE OF THE SEVENTH DIS
TRICT COURT. AND ALSO FOR THE WANTS OF THE
THIRD AND FOURTH DISTRICT CoURss.
SEVENTH DISTRICT COURT.
The existing partition in the center shall be re-
moved. .ta
The center opening shall be filed with q tran.
som light, and the remainder with q brick wall of
same thickness as the old one.
The party wall dividing the present rooms from
the gallery shall be demolished. including the two
chimneys right and left. and shall be rebuilt solid
and flush with the two side walls.
A girder, as shown on the plan and section, shall
be placed across the space left, to support the
ioists of the upper floor.
Two new partitions shall be put up to divide the
present room from the clerks office Of the Third
and Fourth District Courts, The studding being of
SIS yellow pine, placed one foot apart.
Two new doors, with transom lights, on the
hall, in place of those existing.
The openings on Charities street shall be over.
bauled and thoroughly repaired, the walls and
ceilings shall be plastered three coats and hard
finished.
In each of the clerks Offices for the Third,
Fourth and Seventh District Courts, shall be a
fight of winding stairs similar in construction to
those already existing in the Supreme and Fifth
District Courts. Around the walls there shall be
q fourfeet high wanscoting, made OF narrow inch
yellow pine flooring. with q moulding on top.
The skirting shall be sixteen inches high. one and
q half inch thick and three inches m0uldings.
The judges and clerks stands, the lawyers
table, the platform for the jury seats, the deputy
sherifs stand, the witness benches and railing,
shall be similar to those now used in the Third
District Court, and placed in conformity with
plans.
THIRD lSory-The floor shall be leveled the
old tie beams shall be completed leveled,
strengthened, cramped aud bolted throughout.
The joists for the new floor shall be of the best
yellow pine by s, supported by trimmers by 4,
well nailed TO the old umbers and placed l6
inches from centers.
The upper joists for ceiling shall be of similar
size.
The studding forming wall all round the man.
ssrd roof and for the partitions shall be of by T.,
placed foot from center and resting on plates
by above and below.
The door posts shall be BY 1. The chimney
hues now existing shall be pulled down wherever
found in bad condition, and rebuilt from the level
of the old floor 10 the top, above the roof.
The flooring shall be Of narrow, yellow pine, /,
tongued and groved, of good quality and free OF
The partition doors, with transom lights. shall
be double panel, Ii thick, hanged with 4-inch
| butt hinges, and a good American rim lock.
The traDsom lights In the partitions shall be Of
the dimensions as those above the doors.
The present door OF the law library shall be
| used in the new room.
The skirtings all round the rooms and passage
shall be Of ~ cypress, IL inches high, with B.
| inch moulding.
The walls, feelings partitions, Throughout the
third story, shall be lsthed and plastered, three
| coats, hard finished.
-Four new dormants. similar TO those already ex.
istiDg, shsn be placed as marked on the plan.
The main stairs. leading from the second story
70 the third, shall be made as per plan, with
inch risers, Inch treads with mouldings and re-
turn nosing walnut railing with turned ballusters,
/ doyetaled IN the treads, and fancy-turned new.
| ell, also OF black walnut
Two water closets. as per plan. with porcelain
basins, and lead pipes, two inches in diameter,
descending into the yards gutter. The flooring