St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-09
MODERN SUGGESTION FOR A CAPITOL.

constitute the board which will virtually
build the capitol, and of which the gov
ernor shall be chairman, ex-offieio, but
have voice without a vote. Each
commissioner is required to give $4,000
bonds, and subscribe to an official oath.
As soon as the bonds are approved,
and within ten days after qualification,
the commission shall meet in st. Paul
and organize. Their first duty is to ap-
point, outside of their own number, a
superintendent and secretary, who shall
receive suitable compen sation, to be
fixed by the board. The compensation
of members of the commission shall be
travelling expenses and s. per day while
actually employed. A very strict pro-
vision prohibits any member of the COM
mission from being interested in any
property to be used for site or in any
material to be used in the construction
of the building. The section relating
to the raising of the funds for the new
building is as follows:
There shall be transferred in each of
the years 1898 and 1894 from the general
fund to the credit of the board of state
capitol commissioners the sum Of $1,000,
and in each succeeding year after the
year 1894 until the completion of said
capitol building, not exceeding ten
years, from the proceeds of such appro-
priations as may be made therefor by
the legislatures Of the years 1895 and
subsequent years, and not otherwise, a
sum equal to the proceeds of a levy of
two-tenths of a mill upon the assessed
valuation of the state.
The competitive plan has been
adopted to secure the designs for the
building; and the rules. which will be
OF interest to architects, are as follows:
First-The building shall be planned
so that 1t can be properly built, with
ample light and air, upon lot sur
rounded by streets or open ground.
The building shall be supplied with
proper heating, lighting and Ventilating
apparatus, and with necessary sanitary
arrangements.
Second-The drawings required in
the competition shall be as follows:
First, one plan of the cellar and of each
tions of building front, one side and
rear: third, one longitudinal and one
transverse section; fourth, one per-
spective view on the scale of One-fourth
inch TO the foot with point of site
three hundred feet nearest the point to
the bnilding), which shall be rendered
with cast shadows in brush wash in
monotone, black OF brown.
Third-All drawings submitted, eX-
cept the perspective, shall be drawn on
a uniform scale of one-eighth inch TO
the foot, and all shall be executed in
India ink on heavy white paper, with
out shading or shadows. Door and win
dow openings may be tinted in India
ink to show glass. Walls and partitions
may be filed in solid with India ink.
No landscape or figures shall be drawn
on either elevations, excepting one figure
to indicate the scale.
FouTth-All drawings submitted shall
be either mounted on stretchers or
heavy book boards with white or tinted
paper borders, and no border lines or
other framing will be allowed.
Fifth-The designs submitted shall
be for a fireproof building, and one that
can be completed at cost, including
site and all other expenses, not exceed
ing s2,000.000.
SiXth-The drawings shall be sent to
the board of capitol commissioners at
st. Paul, Minn., aud shall come under a
nom de plume, and the real name and
address shall be sent to the board in
sealed envelope, which shall not be
opened until after the award is made
SeVenth-There shall also be type
written description designating the ma
terial the author PROPOSES using in the
construction Of the building, and such
other general information as cannot be
shown on the several drawings herein
called for, as may be necessary to accu-
ately determine the cost of the building.
No drawing or documents other than
those herein called for will be received.
Eighth-Every design shall be ex-
cluded from competition as to which it
appears that any attempt has been made
by the author to influence the decision
of the members of the board or their
advisors; OF if. in the opinion of the
consulting architect, it In any particular
violates the conditions herein stated;
or If 1t be found that its probable cost
will exceed the limits herein named by
more than Is per cent.
Ninth-From the designs furnished
which conform to these conditions the
board may select one to be the design
for the new state house. This design
shall be in the possession of the state,
but shall remain the property of the
architect or firm who made it, and shall
not be used in whole or in part except
said architect or firm is employed as