The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-05-31
81 mai, 1873
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A CONTRACT TO BUILD A NEW JAIL.
WEDNESDAY. May 7th. 1873.
The Police jury met pursuant to adjournment.
Present: John Roy, President; II. DuriO, I. S,
FOntenOt Thcodulc FOntenot andT. G. Chachere,
Plans and specifications were presented by
W. r. Mcginley and VIM. Evans, for the build
ing OF a Parish Jail; and after a careful eXamin-
alton. the plan of W. r. Meginley was adopted,
and the clerk was instructed to issue him a war
rant for the amount appropriated for the same.
On motion of Mr.. T. S. FontenOt, resolved, that
the following plan and specifications for the
building of a Parish Jail, he published for sixty
days, and that the contract for the building of
said Jail be sold to the lowest bidder, in front of
the Court House, on Monday, July 14th, 1873.
Terms and conditions to he made known on day
OF sale: The plan of the building to he seen at
the office of the clerk of the Police Jury
SPECIFICATION OF THE PARISH PRISON.
The building to be fOrtytwO feet front and
thirty-SiX feet from front TO rear, eighteen inch
brick wall. The height to benine and a half feet
between the floor and ceiling. Thefirst floor of
ground, and to be properly ventilated with iron
yentilators, three on each side of said building.
Al1doors and windows shall he double thick
ness, put together with wrought nails, and to be
The wooden cells to be made of planks and
scantlings, and on the north end to be grated,
and the doOrsFto be. batten doors.
All jOists iii the lower floor to be 3x12 inches
81 y 3x1 : "
Each story to receive wall plates 3x s "
Girders to he made in two pieces SKIP inches,
separated by a half finch strip of wood, and
hOlted together with iron bolts, this is to prevent
dry-rot-these girders to be supported by iron
columns.
The stairway to he grated and a door at the
head of the stair. .-
Tubular cells to be made of boiler iron. orgrate
work, each and every cell tobe eparatet to itself.
and each cell shall have d window of CRATE work.
one east and south, and also a door.
The second story windows to be iron grated
with thTee-quarteri inch bars. All Orders to he
anchored and plated. One tier of beams run
ming north and south to be anchored and plated.
In the first story four hog chains running east
and west, and north and south, and in the sec
-Ond and third story, the same as in tho first.
Chains to be made of inch iron and to be plated.
All window jams to he three inches thick TO
Snit the walls. Frames to be trimmed inside
with a slight moulding.
The inside of this building to receive a. coat of
plaster and to be Whitened, and the whole of
this work to receive two coats of white lead,
with the exception of the cells they to receive
two coats OF red Lead, andrthe tubular cells TO be
sheet iron. under the floor, also painted red.
The back-hOuSe, the sewer to he sunk five feet
below the surface Of the ground andtO be paved
in the bottom, cemented and ventilated. 7
In each gable end there will be q lue so as to
INTRODUCE astove-pipe, having no fire place in
said building. rF.-
The.twO doors, front andrear, t0be made with
four inch timber III thickness, the glass to be
used In the window frames to be 12xI8 inches,
the frame to be one and q quarter inch thick.
The flooring and ceiling to be pine plank. The
wooden cells and partitions tOb made of pine
plank also.
The two doors, front and rear. shall he three
and a half feet wide, and eight feet high
The shfngling to finish on the brick work, and
to be properly guttered and leddered.
The elevation of the roof to be One-Quarter of
the base line of the building.